Amazon Aurora Reviews

Name: Amazon Aurora
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4.1 (13 reviews)

4.1 out of 5

13 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 #9 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 28% of all views.

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Featured 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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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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Julius Mboya

Chief technical officer at Solvezy Technology Kenya Limited

There should be constant changes, which can be challenging to keep up with annually. The UAE evolves rapidly, and after just a two-month break, you might find that things have shifted around. It would be helpful to have a more structured way of introducing these changes. I like how Microsoft does it with Patch, where you know to expect updates regularly. If AWS implemented something similar, the update pattern would be more predictable. The only database issue we encountered was when we were using a read replica for both read and write operations. This sometimes caused the database to be slow, likely because the read queries weren’t optimized. However, the issue was resolved once we split the read and write operations into separate replicas, and everything has been smooth since then.

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Amazon Aurora mindshare

As of February 2025, the mindshare of Amazon Aurora in the Relational Databases Tools category stands at 3.4%, down from 4.3% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PeerAnalyst reports

Type	Title	Date
Category	Relational Databases Tools	Feb 1, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Feb 1, 2025	Download
Comparison	Amazon Aurora vs SQL Server	Feb 1, 2025	Download
Comparison	Amazon Aurora vs Oracle Database	Feb 1, 2025	Download
Comparison	Amazon Aurora vs MySQL	Feb 1, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
SQL Server	4.2	20.1%	93%	266 interviews Add to research
MySQL	4.1	8.4%	91%	148 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"Aurora is a key pillar for us, offering performance and availability."
"Aurora's features that I find the most beneficial include its database backup strategy, performance options, and input-output operations."
"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."

Room for Improvement

"Room for improvement might be in the UI, integrations, or data working capabilities for better user experience."
"While Amazon Aurora meets your current scaling and storage needs, there is room for improvement in cryptography and scalability compared to other databases."
"I would like to see more AI-related features in future releases."

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

28%

Computer Software Company

15%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Insurance Company

University

Educational Organization

Healthcare Company

Construction Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Comms Service Provider

Real Estate/Law Firm

Media Company

Hospitality Company

Wholesaler/Distributor

Non Profit

Transportation Company

Recreational Facilities/Services Company

Outsourcing Company

Legal Firm

Pharma/Biotech Company

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.