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“Amazon Aurora : changing traditional database practice with automated services”
“Exploring Amazon Aurora: Speed, Cost, and Slight Customization Concerns”
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Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.
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Auto storage capacity as the baseline storage for a baseline / lower instance ranges at 140 tb which takes away the dependency of database storage management and outage due to it. High availability database as the architecture consists of 6 copies read and write simultaneously which helps to maintain the HA and data continuity Fully managed service which takes away burden of backups , PITR backups and patching
Read Full ReviewGreat for keeping your data up to speed, and also for upscaling your capacity. Amazon Aurora does this without compromising any downtime.
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Overall cost understanding can be a bit difficult as compared to traditional DB and even purchasing reserved instances for aurora instances requires expertise as if not properly selected user can end up paying more. Limited DB options , Aurora currently supports only PostgreSQL and MySQL engines, so it limits your scope of selection from db engines
Read Full ReviewWhen it upgrades, it can be frustrating, and also very expensive. Customization is also slightly limited.
Read Full ReviewIt can be expensive if you do not plan accordingly, the auto scaling can consume quite a bit of capacity and money, sometimes the information can be confusing as there is some information that is no longer applicable (prior versions)
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- CLOUD ENGINEER / CLOUD SPECIALIST50M-1B USDBankingReview Source
Amazon Aurora : changing traditional database practice with automated services
Exceptional alternative to traditional database services as this aws backed database works significantly better compared to traditional ones with scalable storage and lower latencies, helping to maintain database availability and reliability even more - VP OF ENGINEERING<50M USDBankingReview Source
Excellent Managed Database Service with Great Performance and Lower Costs Compared to Other Options
Excellent replacement for managed relational databases with full capabilities but lower costs - Software Developer10B+ USDHealthcare and BiotechReview Source
Simple Terraform Setup and Maintenance With Challenges in ACU Clarity and Deployment
this is really easy to set up and maintain through Terraform - Software Developer50M-1B USDSoftwareReview Source
Automated Backups and Cluster Management Simplify Relational Database Administration
great product and easy to manage. it removes most of the complexities of managing relational databases - Software Developer10B+ USDRetailReview Source
Major Version Upgrades Made Seamless With Aurora Bluegreen Deployment Feature
amazon aurora is easy to provision and sinple to operate. The new Bluegreen deployment feature is helpful for seamless major version upgrades.