Aurora

Amazon Aurora is a relational database offered as a service integrated in AWS's Relational Database Service. Based on the open source MySQL, it is a commercial database that claims to be compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL while providing superior throughput. As a cloud service, Aurora promises high availability. The system is being actively maintained and updated by Amazon.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Aurora
• https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/details/

History

Aurora was announced on Nov. 12, 2014 in Amazon's re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. It's officially released and ready to use as a service in AWS on July 27, 2015, replacing the original Amazon Relational Database Service's database engine.

• http://www.eweek.com/cloud/amazon-claims-new-aurora-db-engine-screams-with-speed
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/WhatsNew.html

Website

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/

Tech Docs

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

Developer

Amazon

Country of Origin

US

Start Year

2014

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Aurora

Project Type

Commercial

Written in

C

Supported languages

SQL

Derived From

MySQL

Operating Systems

Hosted