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Amazon Aurora

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

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

Operate enterprise applications, such as customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain, and billing applications, with high availability and performance.
Support reliable, high- performance, and multi-tenant Software-as a-Service (SaaS) applications with flexible instance and storage scaling.
Develop internet-scale applications, such as mobile games, social media apps, and online services, that require multi-Region scalability and resilience.
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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