AWS Makes Aurora Available to All Customers
SEATTLE, Wash., July 28 -- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, today announced that Amazon Aurora, a MySQL-compatible database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases, is now available to all customers. More than a thousand AWS customers, including global enterprises and startups from a range of industries, participated in the preview and saw that Amazon Aurora can provide up to five times better performance than the typical MySQL database, and availability as good or better than commercial databases – at one-tenth the cost. These customers also found Amazon Aurora has the scalability, durability, and reliability to run the most demanding enterprise and Internet-scale applications – everything from massive Internet of Things (IoT) applications to mission-critical e-commerce sites.
Historically, customers have had to trade off critical capabilities like high performance and mission-critical availability with an affordable price when choosing database solutions. With Amazon Aurora, customers get the best of both worlds – the performance and availability of the highest-grade commercial databases at a cost more commonly associated with open source databases. Highly durable and available, Amazon Aurora automatically replicates data across multiple Availability Zones and continuously backs up data to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), which is designed for 99.999999999 percent durability without performance impact. Amazon Aurora is designed to offer greater than 99.99 percent availability and automatically detect and recover from most database failures in less than 60 seconds, without crash recovery or the need to rebuild database caches. Amazon Aurora continually monitors instance health and if there is a failure, it will automatically failover to a read replica without loss of data. Amazon Aurora is now available as a database engine for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland) Regions, and will expand to additional Regions in the coming months. Amazon RDS for MySQL customers can easily convert their existing MySQL databases to Amazon Aurora with one click in the AWS Management Console.
“Today’s commercial-grade databases are expensive, proprietary, high lock-in, and come with punitive licensing terms that these database providers are comfortable employing,” said Raju Gulabani, Vice President, Database Services, AWS. “It’s why we rarely meet enterprises who aren’t looking to escape from their commercial-grade database solution. Now, with Amazon Aurora, companies can get at least the same availability, durability, and security as commercial-grade databases for one-tenth of the cost.”
AWS partners, including MariaDB, Tableau, Toad, Webyog, Navicat, and Talend, have certified their products with Amazon Aurora, enabling customers to use the tools they use today without change.
“As an AWS partner, MariaDB is excited that AWS is driving innovation in the MySQL community, just like MariaDB is doing today. Amazon Aurora’s cloud-optimized architecture, which is designed to deliver high performance and high availability, is impressive,” said Monty Widenius, CTO of the MariaDB Foundation and the creator of MySQL. “It is great to see Amazon Aurora aiming to maintain MySQL compatibility such that applications running on MariaDB/MySQL today, either on premises or in the cloud, can run on Amazon Aurora without any change. MariaDB is pleased to make our connectors available for Amazon Aurora, and we look forward to working with the Amazon Aurora team in the future to further accelerate innovation.”
Tableau Software helps people see and understand data. “We ran our compatibility test suites against Amazon Aurora and everything just worked,” said Dan Jewett, Vice President of Product Management at Tableau. “Amazon Aurora paired with Tableau means data users can take advantage of the 5x throughput Amazon Aurora provides and deliver faster analytic insights throughout their organizations. We look forward to offering our Amazon Aurora Tableau connector in the coming weeks.”
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Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services offers a robust, fully featured technology infrastructure platform in the cloud comprised of a broad set of compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and deployment services from data center locations in the U.S., Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Ireland, Japan, and Singapore. More than a million customers, including fast-growing startups, large enterprises, and government agencies across 190 countries, rely on AWS services to innovate quickly, lower IT costs and scale applications globally. To learn more about AWS, visit http://aws.amazon.com.
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