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)