Name: Amazon Aurora
Rating: 4.6 (477 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is Amazon Aurora?

Amazon Aurora is a relational database software designed to deliver high performance and availability with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. It automates tasks such as provisioning, patching, backup, recovery, and failover to reduce database management overhead. The software offers features like automatic scaling, replication across multiple availability zones, and backup to cloud storage. It is built to address business needs for reliable data storage, transactional consistency, and quick failover capabilities in case of hardware failures. Amazon Aurora is used to support a variety of workloads, including enterprise applications, e-commerce systems, and SaaS solutions, helping organizations manage structured data while optimizing for performance and durability.

Overall experience with Amazon Aurora

Director Of Network Architecture

500M - 1B USD, Telecommunication

FAVORABLE

“Aurora Offers Top Performance and Scalability With Higher Cost Drawback”

5.0

Feb 7, 2026

Aurora is the simplest way of implementing highly available / scalable / performing SQL database within the AWS ecosystem

MATERIAL PLANNER

1B - 3B USD, Consumer Goods

CRITICAL

“Exploring Amazon Aurora: Speed, Cost, and Slight Customization Concerns”

3.0

Jan 29, 2025

Expensive, but fast and delivers exactly what it says on the tin. great and usable interface with always available data.

About Company

Company Description

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.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

2006

Head office location

Seattle, United States

Number of employees

10001+

Website

http://aws.amazon.com

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Amazon Aurora Likes & Dislikes

Being a managed database, it abstracts you from most of the design and operational workload that would otherwise be required to deliver the same outcomes.

Great for keeping your data up to speed, and also for upscaling your capacity. Amazon Aurora does this without compromising any downtime.

What I like about this product is I feel it is one of the best products among cloud based databse software I have ever come across. Very easy to use, reliable and effiencient.

The main downside is the cost. Features, performance, scalability, availability etc are otherwise top notch.

When it upgrades, it can be frustrating, and also very expensive. Customization is also slightly limited.

What I dislike about this product it lacks when during heavy workflows. But so far I haven't experience any issues just have heard about this.

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50M-1B USD

Telecommunication

Review Source

Aurora Offers Top Performance and Scalability With Higher Cost Drawback

It Services Associate

IT Services

Amazon Aurora Offers Reliable Cloud Database Performance With Minimal Operational Overhead

Apr 28, 2026

Amazon aurora is a most efficient and reliable choice for cloud-based database software. It provides excellence performanace and helps in reducing infrastructure operational overhead.

Director of Software Development

Gov't/PS/Ed

Education

Aurora Provides Stable Performance With Emphasis on Security and Data Isolation

Dec 4, 2025

Aurora is stable and easy to set up and use. It's security posture is really smart, and features like online DDL make upgrades easier

Software Developer

10B+ USD

Healthcare and Biotech

Simple Terraform Setup and Maintenance With Challenges in ACU Clarity and Deployment

Dec 1, 2025

this is really easy to set up and maintain through Terraform

Engineer

<50M USD

Miscellaneous

Reliable and Flexible Database Service

4.0

Dec 3, 2025

Amazon Aurora is a very mature and reliable database service. It provides many features that help facilitate operations and accelerate development. Its performance and flexibility are also very beneficial for our team.