Amazon Aurora Launch
AWS CEO Andy Jassy announced Amazon Aurora, a MySQL-compatible relational database service built for the cloud, at re:Invent 2014, promising five times the performance of standard MySQL.
Significance
This event laid the foundational architecture (distributed, fault-tolerant storage) that Aurora Global Database would later leverage and extend to multiple regions.
Key facts
- Date
- 2014-11-12
- Type
- release
- Location
- Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (AWS re:Invent)