AWS Aurora

AWS Aurora is a fully managed, cloud-native relational database service offered by Amazon Web Services. It combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases, offering compatibility with MySQL and PostgreSQL.…

Key facts

First appeared: 2014
Category: technology
Problem solved: AWS Aurora was created to address the inherent architectural limitations of traditional relational databases (like MySQL and PostgreSQL) when running in a cloud environment, specifically regarding I/O bottlenecks, storage scalability, high availability, and performance, while simultaneously reducing the cost and operational complexity typically associated with commercial enterprise databases.
Platforms: AWS Cloud

Related technologies

Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon EC2
Amazon S3
Programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Node.js, .NET, Go)
AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
AWS Lambda
Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs) like Hibernate, SQLAlchemy, Entity Framework

Notable users

Netflix
Verizon
Ancestry.com
Capital One
Dow Jones
Amazon.com
Expedia
Samsung