Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud, that combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases.
Amazon Aurora is five times faster that standard MySQL databases and three time faster than standard PostgreSQL database. It offers the same security, availability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness as commercial databases, but at a fraction of the cost. Amazon Aurora is fully managed and maintained by Amazon Relational Database Service, (RDS). This automates tedious administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching and backups.
Amazon Aurora is a distributed, fault-tolerant and self-healing storage that auto-scales up 64TB per database instance. It offers high availability and performance with up to 15 low latency read replicas, point in time recovery, continuous backup to Amazon S3, replication across threeAvailability Zones, and continuous backup to Amazon S3.