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Amazon Aurora

byAmazon Web Services (AWS)
in Cloud Database Management Systems (Transitioning to Cloud Operational Database Management Systems)
4.6

Overview

Product Information on Amazon Aurora

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.

Amazon Aurora Pricing

Amazon Aurora is a software offered on a pay-as-you-go pricing model based on actual consumption of database resources including storage and I/O operations, with separate charges for instance hours and features such as backups and snapshots, and additional costs for multi-region configurations.

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
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MATERIAL PLANNER
1B - 3B USD, Consumer Goods
CRITICAL

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

3.0
Jan 29, 2025
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About Company

Company Description

Updated 6th March 2025

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

Updated 23rd December 2024
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 Reviews and Ratings

4.6

(478 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
54%
4 Star
42%
3 Star
4%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
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Why ratings and reviews count differ?
  • Director Of Network Architecture
    50M-1B USD
    Telecommunication
    Review Source

    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
  • Director Of Network Architecture
    50M-1B USD
    Telecommunication
    Review Source

    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
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User Sentiment About Amazon Aurora
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Amazon Aurora Likes & Dislikes

Like

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.

Like

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.

Like

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.

Dislike

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

Dislike

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

Dislike

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