Amazon Aurora Launch
AWS announced Amazon Aurora, a MySQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud, separating compute and storage, promising 5x the performance of standard MySQL.
Significance
This laid the foundational architecture of the distributed, fault-tolerant storage system that Aurora Global Database would later extend across regions.
Key facts
- Date
- 2014-10-12
- Type
- release
- Location
- Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (AWS re:Invent)