Amazon Aurora
Unparalleled high performance and availability at global scale for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and DSQL
What is Aurora
Aurora is a serverless, relational database service that is easy to use with zero infrastructure management, zero downtime maintenance, and instant scaling to any demand. Aurora offers 6x the throughput of PostgreSQL and MySQL, and is fully compatible with PostgreSQL and MySQL. With Aurora DSQL, you have the fastest serverless distributed SQL database that is PostgreSQL-compatible. Aurora is designed for up to 99.999% multi-Region availability and virtually unlimited scale in and across regions to meet your workload needs. Broad compliance standards and enterprise security capabilities along with effortless integration with analytics and agentic AI services makes Aurora ideal for your relational workloads.
Benefits of Aurora
Use cases
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Operate enterprise applications, such as customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain, and billing applications, with high availability and performance.
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Support reliable, high- performance, and multi-tenant Software-as a-Service (SaaS) applications with flexible instance and storage scaling.
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Develop internet-scale applications, such as mobile games, social media apps, and online services, that require multi-Region scalability and resilience.
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Hands-off capacity management, and pay only for capacity consumed with instantaneous and fine-grained scaling to save up to 90% of cost.