31. Amazon RDS for Aurora
• Amazon Aurora is a relational database engine
• It combines the speed and reliability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity
and cost-effectiveness of open source databases.
• It delivers up to five times the throughput of standard MySQL running on the same hardware.
• Amazon Aurora is designed to be compatible with MySQL 5.6, so that existing MySQL
applications and tools can run without requiring modification.
• Amazon Aurora joins MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL as the fifth
database engine available to customers through Amazon RDS.
• Amazon RDS handles time-consuming tasks such as provisioning, patching, backup, recovery,
failure detection, and repair.
• You pay a simple monthly charge for each Amazon Aurora database instance you use. There
are no upfront costs or long-term commitments.
32. Key Features
• Performance and Scalability
1. High Throughput with Low Jitter
2. Push-button Compute Scaling
3. Storage Auto-scaling
4. Amazon Aurora Replicas
• Reliability
1. Instance Monitoring and Repair
2. Fault-tolerant and Self-healing Storage
3. Automatic, Continuous, Incremental Backups and Point-in-time Restore
4. Database Snapshots
• Security
1. Encryption at Rest and in Transit
2. Network Isolation
3. Resource-level Permissions
33. • Manageability
1. Easy to Use
2. Easy Migration
3. Monitoring and Metrics
4. Automatic Software Patching
5. DB Event Notifications
• Cost-effectiveness
1. Pay Only for What You Use