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Amazon Aurora

byAmazon Web Services (AWS)
in Cloud 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

CLOUD ENGINEER / CLOUD SPECIALIST
500M - 1B USD, Banking
FAVORABLE

“Amazon Aurora : changing traditional database practice with automated services”

5.0
Oct 8, 2025
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
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

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 Likes & Dislikes

Like

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

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Like

Great 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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Like

- Data isolation - online DDL - stability

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Dislike

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

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Dislike

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

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Dislike

Aurora makes it very easy for the application's schema and queries to be poorly optimized because of how easy it is to throw money at the problem of poor optimization. A health dashboard that allows for either automatic assessment and insights on the Aurora side or even manually noting down known causes of poor performance would be cool.

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Peer Discussions

Amazon Aurora Reviews and Ratings

4.6

(475 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
54%
4 Star
42%
3 Star
4%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.4

Planning & Transition

4.2

Delivery & Execution

4.4

Integration & Deployment

4.6

Service & Support

4.5

Product Capabilities

4.6

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  • CLOUD ENGINEER / CLOUD SPECIALIST
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Amazon Aurora : changing traditional database practice with automated services

    5.0
    Oct 8, 2025
    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
  • Director of Software Development
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Aurora Provides Stable Performance With Emphasis on Security and Data Isolation

    5.0
    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
  • VP OF ENGINEERING
    <50M USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Excellent Managed Database Service with Great Performance and Lower Costs Compared to Other Options

    5.0
    Oct 21, 2025
    Excellent replacement for managed relational databases with full capabilities but lower costs
  • Software Developer
    10B+ USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

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

    5.0
    Dec 1, 2025
    this is really easy to set up and maintain through Terraform
  • Engineer
    <50M USD
    Miscellaneous
    Review Source

    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.
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