12.1 Database – Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible relational database
engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases
with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases.


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).