AWS

What do you know about Amazon Aurora?

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Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

  • A MySQL & Postgresql based relational database.
  • Proprietary technology from AWS
  • The default database proposed for the user when using RDS for creating a database.
  • Storage automatically grows in increments of 10 GiB
  • HA native - failover in instant
  • Has better performances over MySQL and Postgres
  • Supports 15 replicas (while MySQL supports 5)