Amazon Aurora

A MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud

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data

MySQL

PostgreSQL

auto-scaling

serverless

DOCUMENTATION

Commercial

Technical

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Description

A MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud

Main information

Amazon Aurora is up to five times faster than standard MySQL databases and three times faster than standard PostgreSQL databases. It provides the security, availability, and reliability of commercial databases at 1/10th the cost. Amazon Aurora is fully managed by Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), which automates time-consuming administration tasks like hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups.

Use cases

Description

Software as a Service (SaaS) Applications (AWS)

SaaS applications often use architectures that are multi-tenant, which requires a great deal of flexibility in instance and storage scaling along with high performance and reliability. Amazon Aurora provides all of these features in a managed database offering, helping SaaS companies focus on building high quality applications without worrying about the underlying database that powers the application

Enterprise Applications (AWS)

Compared to commercial databases, Amazon Aurora can help cut down your database costs by 90% or more while improving reliability and availability of the database. Amazon Aurora being a fully managed service helps you save time by automating time consuming tasks such as provisioning, patching, backup, recovery, failure detection, and repair.

Web and Mobile Gaming (AWS)

Web and mobile games that are built to operate at very large scale need a database with high throughput, massive storage scalability, and high availability. Amazon Aurora fulfills the needs of such highly demanding applications with enough room for future growth. Since Amazon Aurora does not have any licensing constraints, it perfectly fits the variable usage pattern of these applications.

Features

Description

Link to documentation

Read Replicas

Create database replicas to increase read throughput and support high-volume application requests

Storage Auto-Scaling

Automatically grow the size of your database volume as your database storage needs grow

Serverless Configuration

Automatically start-up, shut down, and scale up or down capacity based on your application's needs

Parallel Query

Provides faster analytical queries over your current data

Details

Vendor

AWS

Amazon Aurora

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