Amazon Aurora
About Amazon Aurora
Amazon Aurora Pricing
Aurora is available on the pay-as-you-go model for traditional enterprise relational databases. Below given pricing apply to both MySQL-Compatible Edition or PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition: On-Demand Instance: Pricing is available across regions on per hour basis Reserved Instance: Available for a dedicated region Database usage is charged on an hourly basis Upfront and monthly payments are made for a standard 1-year term and standard 3-year term plan Please contact Amazon Web Services directly for further information.
Starting price:
$0.02
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Most Helpful Reviews for Amazon Aurora
1 - 5 of 14 Reviews
Ajmal
Verified reviewer
Non-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2020
Best RDS Solution
If you are looking for a best solution in cloud or hybrid environment, go for it.
PROSAmazon Aurora is a wonderful Relational Database Solution in the AWS Cloud, it can provide you with up to 15 read replicas, it is amazingly server-less. You don't need to worry of capacity and performance.
CONSIt is a bit expensive as to the other available solutions, but considering its features it is a good choice.
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2022
No concerns for speed or our SLAs
Years ago, as our product and userbase grew enough that basic RDS wasn't cutting it, our IT team was surprised at how affordable the move to Aurora was, considering all the improvements. We've never looked back and don't have to spend nearly any working hours on scaling, migrations, and backups. We couldn't do what we do with out it.
PROSThe reliability, speed, and ease of scaling that Aurora offers are unmatched at their price. RDS was great when we started out, but with our software's growth, moving to Aurora was an easy decision.
CONSThe software has pretty much checked every box we have for managed database solutions. The only *ding* they get is for some often slow support response times/solutions.
Reason for choosing Amazon Aurora
Throughput became an increasing concern with the growth of our product and our staff. Just having to not worry about keeping staff to just babysit and manipulate our EC2 instances meanst our time and money would both be better spent improving our software.
Reasons for switching to Amazon Aurora
Growth. They managed our AWS Linux (EC2) instances for a while, but we had to make some staff changes. With very little effort we saw how RDS/Aurora would take the load off our crew and also give us better scalability and reliability.
Kayes
Computer Software, 201-500 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
2
FUNCTIONALITY
2
Reviewed July 2020
MAke Services Esier
everything on one platform thats the most amazing things.
CONSHard functionality. find out other option is hard
Anonymous
51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2022
Aurora - if you're on RDS, you should definitely give it a look
We had been on RDS for a number of years, happily running mySQL, when Aurora came out. The timing felt good: Oracle was just about buy mySQL (I think - not 100% sure on timing), so we were already feeling a bit edgy about what future support for mySQL was going to cost. It was hyped as a cheaper, faster alternative to mySQL -- and once we dipped our toes in the water, we discovered that's pretty much exactly what it is. We run a number of enterprise-class websites on an RDBMS backend, and we migrated from mySQL to Aurora within a few weeks. It was as simple as running database dumps, importing them into Aurora, and changing the pointers. Really. The interfaces are all identical, we didn't have to change any code at all (except for one thing -- see below), and once we cut over, it just worked. Which is basically what you want from your database. I'm very happy we switched over, and honestly, I still just kind of think of our database as mySQL. I use mySQL GUI tools to connect to it, write regular mySQL SQL queries to interact with it, and everything else just feels like the mySQL I grew up with. Only it's significantly cheaper, and feels faster. Win. The only caveat: there was one plugin we had in our mySQL install (it was a thing that let you do Levenshtein distance calculations) that was incompatible with Aurora. The plugin didn't exist. If you have a SUPER customized mySQL setup, look into whether Aurora supports all you do. But for us we never looked back.
PROS* Pretty much a one-for-one swap with mySQL, only faster and cheaper * Not any learning curve * Super reliable
CONS* If you have a seriously customized mysql installation, there may be some plugins that don't work
Reason for choosing Amazon Aurora
Aurora delivered on its promises: almost 100% compatibility with mySQL, super reliable and stable, cheaper, and faster.
Reasons for switching to Amazon Aurora
Amazon offered Aurora to us at a significant price discount on our RDS mySQL install, and claimed it would have (which it did) performance improvements as well.
Dibin
Information Technology and Services, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2023
AWS Aurora A must have RDBMS
Ease of configuration and usability. From the beginning I found it easy to use and handy
CONSat integration level ,I think we can work to make it more seamless