AWS Aurora General Availability

Amazon Web Services unveiled Amazon Aurora, a MySQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud, promising commercial-grade performance with open-source affordability and flexibility. It featured a groundbreaking distributed, fault-tolerant, self-healing storage system.

Significance

This foundational launch established the innovative storage architecture that Aurora Global Database would later leverage and extend. It proved the viability of a cloud-native, high-performance relational database.