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

334 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

Primer

Deliveroo

Zé Delivery

yogiyo

Developers

384 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 17 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.

Warit Kasitanon

Nov 12, 2020 | 9 upvotes · 10.3K views

Shared insights

MongoDB

Amazon Aurora

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 · 544K views

Shared insights

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

2345

Dubsmash: Scaling To 200 Million Users With 3 Engineers

Dec 14 2017 at 10:02AM

Dubsmash

+47

71129

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

Oct 22 2015 at 8:05AM

Medium

+37

119

37376

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.

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.

Azure Database for MySQL

Azure Database for MySQL provides a managed database service for app development and deployment that allows you to stand up a MySQL database in minutes and scale on the fly – on the cloud you trust most.

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