Aurora

Aurora is a AWS designed database engine officially part of RDS

Aurora implements a number of radical design changes which offer significant performance and feature improvements over other RDS database engines.

Endpoints

Cost

Restore, Clone & Backtrack

Multi-Master

Multi-master write is a mode of Aurora Provisioned Clusters which allows multiple instances to perform reads and writes at the same time - rather than only one primary instance having write capability in a single-master cluster.

Single-Master

Multi-Master

RDS Proxy

Amazon RDS Proxy is a fully managed, highly available database proxy for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) that makes applications more scalable, more resilient to database failures, and more secure.

Why?

When?

Key Facts

RDS Custom

Amazon RDS Custom is a managed database service for applications that require customization of the underlying operating system and database environment. Benefits of RDS automation with the access needed for legacy, packaged, and custom applications.

Aurora Fault Tolerance and Aurora Replicas

Cross-Region Replica with Aurora MySQL

Global Database