Amazon Aurora Reviews

Name: Amazon Aurora
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4.1 (16 reviews)

4.1 out of 5

16 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is Amazon Aurora?

Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud, that combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases.

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Amazon Aurora is the #8 ranked solution in top Relational Databases. PeerSpot users give Amazon Aurora an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. Amazon Aurora is most commonly compared to SQL Server: Amazon Aurora vs SQL Server. Amazon Aurora is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 73% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 26% of all views.

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Featured Amazon Aurora reviews

Rajitha Jatothu

Aws Devops Engineer at LTIMindtree

Aurora is a key pillar for us, offering performance and availability. It is faster than RDS and supports multi-region clusters and scalability. One feature we value is Aurora's ability to provide a reader endpoint, allowing applications to connect without tracking replicas. It supports auto-scaling and offers several options for monitoring and optimizing database performance. Aurora's fault tolerance and ability to handle multiple replicas contribute to its reliability and high performance.

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Girish Mukim

AWS Architect at IBM

One of the most valuable features is storage scaling. Depending on storage requirements, AWS enables auto-scaling of storage. In non-AWS environments, adding storage typically requires downtime. Furthermore, AWS provides out-of-the-box monitoring for performance to ensure there are no performance bottlenecks, and offers the option to switch to higher performance storage for improved performance. Another advantage is that with AWS handling administration, responsibilities like database provisioning and maintenance are significantly reduced. Customers can create services and start using them immediately without worrying about managing hardware or creating databases.

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Peter J Matra

Web Developer and IT Consultant at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

I believe offering people the option to use Graviton processors or not is important, but they should just have people use the Graviton processors and the more advanced chips to save money. Sometimes mistakes can be easily made, and people can waste money by mistake if they do not know what they are doing.

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Amazon Aurora mindshare

As of March 2025, the mindshare of Amazon Aurora in the Relational Databases Tools category stands at 3.3%, down from 4.3% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Relational Databases Tools

PeerAnalyst reports based on Amazon Aurora reviews

Type	Title	Date
Category	Relational Databases Tools	Mar 4, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Mar 4, 2025	Download
Comparison	Amazon Aurora vs SQL Server	Mar 4, 2025	Download
Comparison	Amazon Aurora vs Oracle Database	Mar 4, 2025	Download
Comparison	Amazon Aurora vs MySQL	Mar 4, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
SQL Server	4.2	19.3%	93%	268 interviews Add to research
MySQL	4.1	8.5%	91%	148 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"One of the standout features of Amazon Aurora is that we do not need to maintain disaster recovery or manage availability zones."
"The most valuable features of Amazon Aurora include the global instance with the global writer endpoint, which allows failovers and instance switches without requiring changes in my code, thanks to the default global Route 53 endpoint."
"Aurora is a key pillar for us, offering performance and availability."

Room for Improvement

"There are tuning challenges."
"In Oracle, tools like Veridata allow for comparing databases and certifying data accuracy, even offering repair capabilities, which are missing in Aurora. There should be a similar comparison tool in Aurora."
"Room for improvement might be in the UI, integrations, or data working capabilities for better user experience."

Pricing

"I would rate the pricing a six out of ten, with ten being expensive."
"There is no need to buy a license for the product. We can pay as per the use case."
"It is an expensive solution."

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Top industries

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Financial Services Firm

26%

Computer Software Company

15%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

University

Retailer

Healthcare Company

Educational Organization

Construction Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Media Company

Comms Service Provider

Real Estate/Law Firm

Hospitality Company

Wholesaler/Distributor

Transportation Company

Outsourcing Company

Recreational Facilities/Services Company

Non Profit

Legal Firm

Recruiting/Hr Firm

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Learn more about Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora is up to five times faster than standard MySQL databases and three times faster than standard PostgreSQL databases. It provides the security, availability, and reliability of commercial databases at 1/10th the cost. Amazon Aurora is fully managed by Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), which automates time-consuming administration tasks like hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups.

Amazon Aurora features a distributed, fault-tolerant, self-healing storage system that auto-scales up to 64TB per database instance. It delivers high performance and availability with up to 15 low-latency read replicas, point-in-time recovery, continuous backup to Amazon S3, and replication across three Availability Zones (AZs).

Visit the Amazon RDS Management Console to create your first Aurora database instance and start migrating your MySQL and PostgreSQL databases.