Amazon Web Services is now ready to launch a new product called Aurora. This is a MySQL-compatible database engine which emphasizes on cost effectiveness as well as automation.
Amazon plans to offer this service with the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). They report that this will deliver the quality performance their high-end competitors will offer, but at one-tenth of what they will charge.
“Amazon RDS has lowered the cost of managing relational databases for thousands of AWS customers, and as demand has exploded over the last few years, we’ve added MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL engines. But, what we’ve consistently heard from our customers was that they wished they had an easier way to get the performance of commercial databases at the price of open source engines,” explains AWS VP of Database Services, Raju Gulabani.
He continues:
“This is why we built Amazon Aurora. We’ve spent the last three years working on a MySQL-compatible database that innovates on the engine and storage layers to deliver five times the performance of MySQL at one-tenth the price of commercial database solutions.”
Customers won’t require a contract to try out the new database, and existing Auroa users include luxury retailer Kurt Geiger, cloud-based accounting software developer Intuit, and online education provider Coursera.
“With standard MySQL we were rapidly approaching maximum capacity to serve our expanding customer base. Amazon Aurora’s new, low latency replica functionality will allow us to further scale our product catalogs by 15x while at the same time improving the freshness of our product pages by 40x,” comments Kurt Geiger e-Commerce Systems architect, Adam Bidwell. “And, best of all, since Amazon Aurora is designed to be MySQL-compatible, so we expect to use our applications with little or no changes.”
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