Amazon Aurora

Scalable Relational Database Service

What do you like best? Aurora comes in two flavors - PostgreSQL or MySQL, so you can pick the relational database that's best for your needs. Auto-scaling SSD Storage currently up to 64TB as well means never having to worry about resizing the database storage. What do you dislike? Aurora is both vertically (instance size) and horizontally (# of nodes) scalable - however, it should be noted that when adding additional nodes to the cluster, they are read-only. All Insert/Update/Delete ...

Aurora Rocks

What do you like best? The first time we tested using Aurora we migrated a MSSQL database using the migration tool. In less than 30 minutes the DB was migrated and up and running in Aurora. What do you dislike? Nothing to dislike other than some feel that it is too easy and less time to spend managing db in the future/ Recommendations to others considering the product: Give it a try, you 'll love it What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you ...

Aurora Database

What do you like best? The best part of the service is reliability, we have migrated from MySQL to Aurora with MySQL compatibility. What do you dislike? There is nothing to dislike about the product. Recommendations to others considering the product: NA What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Having multi-az deployment and reliability.

Simple relational database for your applications!

What do you like best? The ability to stand up a database in minutes and have the reliability at the same time! What do you dislike? MySQL is the back end of this database engine which is similar to SQL Server for those who are more comfortable but requires users to understand some MySQL nuances. Not all features you'd typically see in SQL Server are available in MySQL. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? The ability to have ...

Overall, great.

What do you like best? Easy to implement additional clusters, replicas, cross-region backups, etc. Size scales easily without needing to add drive space. What do you dislike? Large joins use the ram/storage of the instance itself and will sometimes fill up, causing the job to fail. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Relation database for production web app.

Amazon Aurora leads the way into the 2020s

What do you like best? Built on Amazon's infrastructure from the ground up. Blue-sky thinking of database internals What do you dislike? There"s actually nothing I've found to dislike. Coupled with tools built for builders, this database platform is superb What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Moving existing Oracle databases to Aurora. Moving away from 90s tech and punitive licensing

Enterprise RDBMS out of the box

What do you like best? I couldnt achieve any of this performance and durability with any free open-source alternatives. It works very well and is durable. If your schema and config is laid out well you can just sit back and watch your DB scale. What do you dislike? Some of the internals is a littlebit invisible, which makes it tricky with certain things such as binlogs. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? RDBMS storage, we save money ...

Aurora rocks

What do you like best? Point in time restore, fully managed, highly scalable What do you dislike? Occasional crashes without diagnostics, empty logs are annoying and useless. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Fully managed mysql. Peace of mind that even if it crashes, it will fail over to our replica and life will continue.

Best alternative for traditional RDBMS

What do you like best? The speed of migration because we can you similar SQL as MSSQL, option for serverless, and fantastic scaling. Its pretty easy to change your existing code to use Aurora instead of MSSQL. What do you dislike? Nothing to dislike about Aurora at all. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Replaced the need of Microsoft SQL Server. It was way cheaper than MSSQL and easy to change with minor code changes

Why are you still running mysql servers when you could be running aurora

What do you like best? The fact that we no longer have to run our own mysql servers on prem Simple set up, simple end point permissions just work What do you dislike? The GUI can leave a lot to be desired, but this is true for many AWS products Recommendations to others considering the product: why are you using mysql when you could be using amazon aurora What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? replacing on premise mysql ...