Amazon Aurora is a high-performance relational database that is fully compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL, designed to run in the AWS cloud. Aurora combines the simplicity and affordability of open-source solutions with the reliability and speed of commercial databases.
Advantages of Amazon Aurora
- High performance: up to 5× faster than MySQL and up to 3× faster than PostgreSQL (due to optimized architecture).
- Scalability: automatic scaling up to 128 TB and up to 15 replicas.
- Reliability and fault tolerance: replication across 3 Availability Zones.
- Compatibility: easy migration of applications from MySQL/PostgreSQL.
- AWS integration: DevOps and observability (CloudWatch), integrations with Lambda/analytics/ML.
- Cost optimization: pay-as-you-go and Aurora Serverless for savings on variable workloads.
Benefits for customers
- Time and cost savings: less manual administration.
- Stability under load: high performance as traffic grows.
- Easy migration: transfer existing MySQL/PostgreSQL solutions.
- Continuous availability: fault-tolerant architecture.
- Suitable for everyone: flexibility for startups and large enterprises.
