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Amazon Aurora

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible relational database with several times better performance

What is Amazon Aurora?

Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible, relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Amazon Aurora provides up to five times better performance than MySQL at a price point one tenth that of a commercial database while delivering similar performance and availability.
Amazon Aurora is a tool in the SQL Database as a Service category of a tech stack.

Who uses Amazon Aurora?

Companies
349 companies reportedly use Amazon Aurora in their tech stacks, including Delivery Hero, StackShare, and HENNGE K.K..

Developers
411 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Amazon Aurora.

Amazon Aurora Integrations

MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS Glue, dbForge Studio for MySQL, and Amazon Quicksight are some of the popular tools that integrate with Amazon Aurora. Here's a list of all 18 tools that integrate with Amazon Aurora.
Pros of Amazon Aurora
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MySQL compatibility
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Better performance
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Easy read scalability
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Speed
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Low latency read replica
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High IOPS cost
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Good cost performance
Decisions about Amazon Aurora

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Amazon Aurora in their tech stack.

Craig Heath
Owner at Bluefield Identity · | 6 upvotes · 19.2K views

Does anyone have any advice or guidance on how to create a Lucee instance in the Amazon Web Service cloud? I'm a many years CF dev but I have zero experience working with cloud services and I'm trying to roll my own on this one. I have a traditional ACF hosting arrangement I desperately need to migrate from (their support has recently evaporated and it's causing my application performance nightmares) and my app will need to be in the cloud for scalability considerations so I'm figuring now is the best time to make the move. My current setup is ACF with a MSSQL backend and I think I'd like to migrate that to a Lucee/MySQL or Amazon Aurora setup.

Any pointers would be most welcome. Thanks in advance!

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My company is deciding between two developers for a mobile application, one proposing Amazon Aurora and the other MongoDB. In layman's terms, I would like to know the difference between the two.

The mobile app includes features such as: 1. Telematrix data from an existing web application 2. Push Notifications 3. Records from the company's database for viewing 4. E-commerce page

It would be so helpful to hear your opinions and recommendations. Our in-house IT is not very helpful in terms of communicating the pros and cons of each.

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Pedro Arnal Puente
CTO at La Cupula Music SL · | 8 upvotes · 647.8K views
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Our base infrastructure is composed of Debian based servers running in Amazon EC2 , asset storage with Amazon S3 , and Amazon RDS for Aurora and Redis under Amazon ElastiCache for data storage.

We are starting to work in automated provisioning and management with Terraform.

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Amazon Aurora's Features

  • High Throughput with Low Jitter
  • Push-button Compute Scaling
  • Storage Auto-scaling
  • Amazon Aurora Replicas
  • Instance Monitoring and Repair
  • Fault-tolerant and Self-healing Storage
  • Automatic, Continuous, Incremental Backups and Point-in-time Restore
  • Database Snapshots
  • Resource-level Permissions
  • Easy Migration
  • Monitoring and Metrics

Amazon Aurora Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Amazon Aurora?
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
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Amazon Aurora's Followers
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