Amazon Aurora

hihgly reliable and scalable database engine

What do you like best? I dont have to manage my own cluster; it is scalable; you pay for what you use; it highly reliable when setup as a cluster What do you dislike? visibility into logs; lack of custom configuration What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? reducing the number of DBA's

Awesome!

What do you like best? Drop-in replacement for MySQL, faster and easier to use. What do you dislike? Need higher storage limits - 64TB is too small Recommendations to others considering the product: Yse it! What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Storing full operation history for financial documents

Aurora roars!

What do you like best? auto-everything, 1-click, faster, and cheaper!!! I mean really....compare to 10 years ago - SqlServer & Oracle dominating, taking $$$$, people to manage everything, nobody really with good DR/BU (esoteric, hard work)....or of course MySql and Postgres but no corp would allow use of it. Now, all the stuff you got from those paid guys, and so much more (the stuff that everyone should have done but didn't) - Aurora is the answer. What do you dislike? Still at least ...

aurora for smaller group

What do you like best? aurora serverless seems like a good choice for us What do you dislike? it is not avaiable outside private vpc expenicve Recommendations to others considering the product: try it and you will like it What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? database server, less mangement, fine tunned, easy backup

Started working with Aurora this year

What do you like best? Serverless nature, no need to patch. Always up and I can focus purley on application development. I also like the ease by which we can create/manage instances. Do not need to rely on dba team. What do you dislike? At first there was not BYK support, but that was added relatively quickly. That is was the only downside that we encountered. I would like a better UI on the AWS console so that I can better visulize all our instances. What problems are you solving ...

exploring the features now and so far satisfied

What do you like best? read replication and failover works well What do you dislike? so far it works as well as postgresql rds we currently use What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? read replication to allow oltp application performance improvement

It's good service

What do you like best? It good high availability. Multi cluster. What do you dislike? No good inter region service. I want read only across regions What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? My database is stored there reliably

Arurora allows us to scale in a secure manner

What do you like best? Amazon Aurora makes scaling databases up, or out, trivial and fast. What do you dislike? Aurora needs a bit more visibility into what's happening within the database (expand capabilities of Performance Insights), What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Moving several large databases from physical hardware with limited capabilities into a system that allows us to scale trivially and that also enables features that ...

Aurora is the relational database to use

What do you like best? The ability to quickly spin up multi-cluster my sql based databases that are fast and the storage is highly available. I am awaiting the multi-master multi-region feature... that will be a game changer. The serverless capabilities look great; but i have not tried it out yet. What do you dislike? some people perceive that it is slow compared to document based databases. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? ACID ...

Relational database specific for cloud

What do you like best? Faster than SQL Dbs. Scalable. Secure, Availability. What do you dislike? There is nothing in this product that we donot like What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We have used this for launching our Retail analytics for a large retail client. Faster transaction processing