Amazon Aurora

Unparalleled high performance and availability at global scale with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility

Why Aurora?

Amazon Aurora provides unparalleled high-performance and availability at global scale with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility, at 1/10th the cost of commercial databases. Aurora has 5x the throughput of MySQL and 3x of PostgreSQL. Aurora has broad compliance standards and best-in-class security capabilities. Aurora offers storage resiliency by making data durable across 3 AZs (customers only pay for 1 copy). Aurora has up to 99.99% availability, and customers can access local read performance with Global Database when deployed across AWS Regions. With serverless, Aurora can scale-up to hundreds of thousands of transactions in a fraction of a second. Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift delivers analytics on transactional data in near real-time.

Benefits of Amazon Aurora

High performance

Power performance-intensive applications and critical workloads while maintaining full compatibility with MySQL and PostgreSQL at one-tenth the cost of commercial databases.

High availability

Build applications with Multi-AZ availability backed by a 99.99% uptime SLA and global replication with cross-Region disaster recovery in less than 1 minute.

Cost-effective

Improve productivity and lower total cost of ownership with a fully managed database including innovations like serverless so you can focus on building applications that delight your users.

Easy to migrate

Easily migrate MySQL or PostgreSQL databases to and from Aurora using standard tools, or run legacy SQL Server applications with Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL with minimal code change.

Introduction to Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora is a relational database management system (RDBMS) built for the cloud with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. Aurora gives you the performance and availability of commercial-grade databases at one-tenth the cost.

Use cases

Modernize enterprise applications

Operate enterprise applications, such as customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain, and billing applications, with high availability and performance.

Build SaaS applications

Support reliable, high- performance, and multi-tenant Software-as a-Service (SaaS) applications with flexible instance and storage scaling.

Deploy globally distributed applications

Develop internet-scale applications, such as mobile games, social media apps, and online services, that require multi-Region scalability and resilience.

Go serverless

Hands-off capacity management, and pay only for capacity consumed with instantaneous and fine-grained scaling to save up to 90% of cost.

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