Why developers like Amazon Aurora

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

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

Delivery Hero

StackShare

HENNGE K.K.

medium.com

deleokorea

Shelf

Primer

yogiyo

Deliveroo

Developers

401 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Amazon Aurora.

My Stack

AppPraise Backend

Moonshot BI

My Stack

AWS Stack

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.

MySQL

PostgreSQL

AWS Glue

dbForge Studio for ...

Amazon Quicksight

Stitch

AWS Secrets Manager

Cloudcraft

AWS Database Migration ...

Pros of Amazon Aurora

MySQL compatibility

Better performance

Easy read scalability

Speed

Low latency read replica

High IOPS cost

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 · Feb 15, 2023 | 5 upvotes · 11.3K views

Needs advice

Amazon Aurora

Amazon Web Service

and

Lucee

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!

Warit Kasitanon

Nov 12, 2020 | 9 upvotes · 12.2K views

Needs advice

Amazon Aurora

and

MongoDB

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.

Pedro Arnal Puente

CTO at La Cupula Music SL · Jul 9, 2019 | 8 upvotes · 604.5K views

Shared insights

SonoSuite

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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Blog Posts

How Codacy Analyzes 30 Billion Lines of Code Per Day

May 1 2019 at 12:25AM

Codacy

2663

Dubsmash: Scaling To 200 Million Users With 3 Engineers

Dec 14 2017 at 10:02AM

Dubsmash

+47

71917

The Stack That Helped Medium Scale To 2.6 Millennia Of Reading...

Oct 22 2015 at 8:05AM

Medium

+37

120

37699

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?

Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS gives you access to the capabilities of a familiar MySQL, Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server database engine. This means that the code, applications, and tools you already use today with your existing databases can be used with Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up your database, storing the backups for a user-defined retention period and enabling point-in-time recovery. You benefit from the flexibility of being able to scale the compute resources or storage capacity associated with your Database Instance (DB Instance) via a single API call.

Google Cloud SQL

Run the same relational databases you know with their rich extension collections, configuration flags and developer ecosystem, but without the hassle of self management.

Azure SQL Database

It is the intelligent, scalable, cloud database service that provides the broadest SQL Server engine compatibility and up to a 212% return on investment. It is a database service that can quickly and efficiently scale to meet demand, is automatically highly available, and supports a variety of third party software.

PlanetScaleDB

It is a fully managed cloud native database-as-a-service built on Vitess and Kubernetes. A MySQL compatible highly scalable database. Effortlessly deploy, manage, and monitor your databases in multiple regions and across cloud providers.

DigitalOcean Managed Databases

Build apps and store data in minutes with easy access to one or more databases and sleep better knowing your data is backed up and optimized.

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