Amazon Aurora
Unparalleled high performance and availability at global scale
Amazon Aurora is a fully managed relational database with PostgreSQL and MySQL compatibility, delivering 5x MySQL and 3x PostgreSQL throughput. It offers up to 99.999% multi-region availability with Aurora DSQL for virtually unlimited distributed SQL scale.
Recursos
✓ MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible
✓ 5x MySQL / 3x PostgreSQL throughput
✓ Aurora Serverless for auto-scaling
✓ Global Database (sub-second replication)
✓ Aurora DSQL for distributed SQL
✓ Up to 128 TiB storage auto-scaling
✓ Automatic failover
✓ Babelfish for SQL Server migration
✓ Point-in-time recovery
✓ Read replicas
Prós
- + PostgreSQL/MySQL compatible (easy migration)
- + Superior performance vs standard RDS
- + Global distribution with fast replication
- + Serverless option for variable workloads
- + Deep AWS integration
Contras
- − AWS vendor lock-in
- − More expensive than standard RDS
- − Some PostgreSQL/MySQL features unsupported
- − Complex pricing model