The most valuable feature is the ability to do multiple-read and single-write. These are the kinds of features that we were interested in, and Aurora takes care of that natively.
Cloud - Solution Architect at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees
Aug 27, 2024
Amazon Aurora stands out for its ease of use in a managed environment, inbuilt security, continuous backups, numerous read replicas, multi-region automated replication, and seamless integration with other AWS services.
The most valuable feature is that the maintainability is offloaded to the service provider. I don't have to maintain a database or do any administrative tasks, which comes in handy.
Aurora's compatibility with MySQL or PostgreSQL benefited our database management. The migration from on-premise MySQL to Aurora was similar, so we didn't need to change our source code.
Owner at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
Feb 17, 2023
The most valuable feature of Amazon Aurora is SQL standardization, it doesn't have its own syntax which is good. It has a lot of hands-off self-management type of activities, such as log rolling and auto-scaling.
Cloud Data Solutions Architect at a recreational facilities/services company with 10,001+ employees
Mar 17, 2023
The solution’s scalability is good since we don’t need to take a maintenance window during unpredictable workloads. I like the solution’s behind-the-scenes happenings. It is a great feature.
Cloud - Solution Architect at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees
Aug 27, 2024
While Amazon Aurora meets your current scaling and storage needs, there is room for improvement in cryptography and scalability compared to other databases.
It is a bit costly. The features are quite good, and I wouldn't say it requires any technical improvements. But from a cost perspective, some clients wouldn't go for Aurora because of that.
Owner at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
Feb 17, 2023
There is improvement needed to have more developer focus. Additionally, it would be helpful to have a stand-alone solution outside of Amazon. Amazon has a tendency to favor developing web-based clients, which may not always provide the fastest or most responsive solution as desired.
Cloud Data Solutions Architect at a recreational facilities/services company with 10,001+ employees
Mar 17, 2023
I would like to see performance insights on the database based on the queries. Currently, we use SolarWinds as the monitoring tool. I would like to leverage SolarWinds’ performance insights in AWS services. SolarWinds gives larger insights when we run performance issues.
