Amazon Aurora: A for AwesomeScott Patterson@troubleisbrewng

It’s fast● Excels during high connections● Striped volumes, SSD-based● More efficient use of I/O by design● Read requests are load balanced● Storage is shared, means replication lag kept to a minimum● Even seeing customers moving from NoSQL

It’s scalable● 15 read replicas● Autoscale storage up to 64TB● Load balanced read endpoint

It’s available● Storage volumes replicated 6 ways over 3 AZs● Continuous backups to S3 with 99.99999999999% durability● Instant crash recovery● Point in time recovery to milliseconds● Master node failover

It’s cheap● Oracle SE1 $2956.23● MSSQL Std $4888.71● MSSQL EE $9381.73● Aurora $1890.97

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Fast

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