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- Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Best RDS Solution
Reviewed on 05/04/2020
If you are looking for a best solution in cloud or hybrid environment, go for it.
Pros
Amazon Aurora is a wonderful Relational Database Solution in the AWS Cloud, it can provide you with up to 15 read replicas, it is amazingly server-less. You don't need to worry of capacity and performance.
Cons
It is a bit expensive as to the other available solutions, but considering its features it is a good choice.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
No concerns for speed or our SLAs
Reviewed on 29/06/2022
Years ago, as our product and userbase grew enough that basic RDS wasn't cutting it, our IT team was surprised at how affordable the move to Aurora was, considering all the improvements. We've never looked back and don't have to spend nearly any working hours on scaling, migrations, and backups. We couldn't do what we do with out it.
Pros
The reliability, speed, and ease of scaling that Aurora offers are unmatched at their price. RDS was great when we started out, but with our software's growth, moving to Aurora was an easy decision.
Cons
The software has pretty much checked every box we have for managed database solutions. The only *ding* they get is for some often slow support response times/solutions.
Alternatives Considered
Amazon RDSReasons for Choosing Amazon Aurora
Growth. They managed our AWS Linux (EC2) instances for a while, but we had to make some staff changes. With very little effort we saw how RDS/Aurora would take the load off our crew and also give us better scalability and reliability.Reasons for Switching to Amazon Aurora
Throughput became an increasing concern with the growth of our product and our staff. Just having to not worry about keeping staff to just babysit and manipulate our EC2 instances meanst our time and money would both be better spent improving our software.- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
MAke Services Esier
Reviewed on 17/07/2020
Pros
everything on one platform thats the most amazing things.
Cons
Hard functionality. find out other option is hard
- Industry: Publishing
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Aurora - if you're on RDS, you should definitely give it a look
Reviewed on 29/05/2022
We had been on RDS for a number of years, happily running mySQL, when Aurora came out. The timing felt good: Oracle was just about buy mySQL (I think - not 100% sure on timing), so we were already feeling a bit edgy about what future support for mySQL was going to cost. It was hyped as a cheaper, faster alternative to mySQL -- and once we dipped our toes in the water, we discovered that's pretty much exactly what it is. We run a number of enterprise-class websites on an RDBMS backend, and we migrated from mySQL to Aurora within a few weeks. It was as simple as running database dumps, importing them into Aurora, and changing the pointers. Really. The interfaces are all identical, we didn't have to change any code at all (except for one thing -- see below), and once we cut over, it just worked. Which is basically what you want from your database. I'm very happy we switched over, and honestly, I still just kind of think of our database as mySQL. I use mySQL GUI tools to connect to it, write regular mySQL SQL queries to interact with it, and everything else just feels like the mySQL I grew up with. Only it's significantly cheaper, and feels faster. Win. The only caveat: there was one plugin we had in our mySQL install (it was a thing that let you do Levenshtein distance calculations) that was incompatible with Aurora. The plugin didn't exist. If you have a SUPER customized mySQL setup, look into whether Aurora supports all you do. But for us we never looked back.
Pros
* Pretty much a one-for-one swap with mySQL, only faster and cheaper
* Not any learning curve
* Super reliable
Cons
* If you have a seriously customized mysql installation, there may be some plugins that don't work
Alternatives Considered
MySQLReasons for Choosing Amazon Aurora
Amazon offered Aurora to us at a significant price discount on our RDS mySQL install, and claimed it would have (which it did) performance improvements as well.Switched From
MySQLReasons for Switching to Amazon Aurora
Aurora delivered on its promises: almost 100% compatibility with mySQL, super reliable and stable, cheaper, and faster.- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 501-1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Solid basis for any cloud database needs
Reviewed on 24/03/2022
I've enjoyed my experience using Aurora. It's a really nice database system and supports both MySQL and Postgres, which is a plus. Connecting it to EC2 is really easy by just making sure the security groups are happy. I like it and plan to use it a little for my own personal projects.
Pros
- Support both MySQL and Postres
- Available in both serverless and server-based varieties
- Easy to connect to via EC2 instances
Cons
- Reading/writing via external (i.e. not on AWS) applications is.... difficult. At least, it took me a while to figure it out. Maybe I was doing it wrong though.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
How easy it is to use Amazon Aurora?
Reviewed on 18/06/2022
Keeping all my data is the best thing that it has done for, i have lost somedaya before but now i know it's safe and i can store it and recover it if lost.
Pros
Amazon Aurora is a very easy to use platform to store data and transfer it, i like everything about it and mostly that is very affordable.
Cons
It hasn't been improved for a while there some features that are missing i just with they could add them like the storage size.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Awesome Relational DB for cloud
Reviewed on 16/04/2021
Overall great product.
Pros
This software is built for Relational DB for cloud, it is one of the best database engines out there. It gives high performance and reliability.
Cons
A bit costlier compared to other similar products, feels bit unpolished and clunky sometimes. The interface could be better, other than these no much cons.
- Industry: Pharmaceuticals
- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Great managed remote desktop services by Amazon
Reviewed on 06/06/2022
Pros
The best part of Aurora is that it is managed, which makes everything easier for setting up. The data is encrypted which helps the data to be secured completely. It is way faster than other databases such as Oracle.
Cons
It's not user-friendly which makes it difficult to use at the beginning. The support is not the best when compared to others in the market.
