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Amazon Aurora

Score7.1 out of 10

160 Reviews and Ratings

What is Amazon Aurora?

Amazon Aurora is a global-scale relational database service built for the cloud with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility.

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A look inside the RDS console.

Top Performing Features

  • Database scalability

    Ease of scaling compute or memory resources and storage up or down

    Category average: 9

  • Automated backups

    Automated backup enabling point-in-time data recovery

    Category average: 8.2

  • Automatic host deployment

    Compute instance replacement in the event of hardware failure

    Category average: 7.4

Areas for Improvement

  • Database security provisions

    Provision for database encryption, network isolation, and identity access management

    Category average: 8.8

  • Monitoring and metrics

    Built-in monitoring of multiple operational metrics

    Category average: 6.7

  • Automatic software patching

    Patches applied to database automatically

    Category average: 8.6