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Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora

Unparalleled high performance and availability at global scale for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and DSQL

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Why Aurora?

Amazon Aurora provides unparalleled high performance and availability at global scale for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and DSQL. Aurora has 5x the throughput of MySQL and 3x of PostgreSQL with full PostgreSQL and MySQL compatibility. Aurora also offers DSQL, the fastest distributed SQL database that is PostgreSQL-compatible. Aurora is designed for up to 99.999% multi-Region availability. With Aurora DSQL, Aurora provides virtually unlimited scale in and across regions with no infrastructure management. Aurora offers broad compliance standards and enterprise security capabilities, and support for globally distributed apps.

Introduction to Aurora

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.