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PROS

Amazon Aurora allows offloading database maintenance and administrative tasks to the service provider, enhancing ease of use.
Its multi-read and single-write capabilities, along with SQL standardization, allow for efficient database operations without custom syntax.
The service offers impressive scalability, auto-scaling, and seamless operation during unpredictable workloads, negating the need for a maintenance window.
Amazon Aurora provides advanced security, continuous backups, numerous read replicas, multi-region automated replication, and integration with AWS services.
The global instance and writer endpoint in Amazon Aurora facilitate failovers and instance switches without code changes, leveraging the global Route 53 endpoint for seamless operation.

CONS

Amazon Aurora is perceived as costly, deterring some clients from opting for it.
Pricing adjustments and enhancements to focus more on developers are suggested.
There is a need for performance insights on databases based on queries, with a desire to integrate SolarWinds' insights with AWS services.
Migration from PostgreSQL RDS to Amazon Aurora presents technical challenges, particularly concerning the use of PostgreSQL snapshots.
Users desire more AI-related features in future releases and improvements in cryptography and scalability.
 

Amazon Aurora Pros review quotes

SivashankarRajaram - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
May 4, 2026
The main benefits my company receives from Amazon Aurora are performance and cost.
Rubens Oliveira - PeerSpot reviewer
Data & Solution Archtect at Enkel
Jul 23, 2025
Amazon Aurora's best features are about scaling up and scaling down, which is perfect.
SP
Digital Services & Engagement Senior Manager at AXA
Mar 6, 2025
My overall experience with Amazon Aurora is very positive. I rate it ten out of ten for its reliability and efficiency.
Learn what your peers think about Amazon Aurora. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: May 2026.
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Adnan Shafiq - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President - Database Management (Principal Solutions Architect) at Northbay
Apr 30, 2025
Amazon Aurora is built on community databases and AWS has added additional features to it, allowing customers to have enterprise-level features at a lower cost.
Prabakar Vellaipandian - PeerSpot reviewer
Staff Software Engineer at Altimetrik (Deployed at FORD)
Feb 7, 2025
The most valuable features of Amazon Aurora include the global instance with the global writer endpoint, which allows failovers and instance switches without requiring changes in my code, thanks to the default global Route 53 endpoint.
Girish Mukim - PeerSpot reviewer
AWS Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Dec 2, 2024
One of the most valuable features is storage scaling.
Peter J Matra - PeerSpot reviewer
Web Developer and IT Consultant at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 2, 2025
They now offer some really good scaling and limitless versions that are available to me, which I find very impressive.
Rajitha Jatothu - PeerSpot reviewer
Aws Devops Engineer at LTIMindtree
Dec 20, 2024
Aurora is a key pillar for us, offering performance and availability.
Abhijit Gautam - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud - Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 27, 2024
Amazon Aurora stands out for its ease of use in a managed environment, inbuilt security, continuous backups, numerous read replicas, multi-region automated replication, and seamless integration with other AWS services.
PP
CTO at Atulya Abhinav Tech Private Limited
Feb 25, 2025
One of the standout features of Amazon Aurora is that we do not need to maintain disaster recovery or manage availability zones.
 

Amazon Aurora Cons review quotes

SivashankarRajaram - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
May 4, 2026
Amazon can make better access levels and reduce costs for Amazon Aurora.
Rubens Oliveira - PeerSpot reviewer
Data & Solution Archtect at Enkel
Jul 23, 2025
I don't use Amazon Aurora's global database feature; I just use the local feature.
SP
Digital Services & Engagement Senior Manager at AXA
Mar 6, 2025
A challenge I noticed is during migration from PostgreSQL RDS to Amazon Aurora. There are technical challenges, such as the inability to provision the database using a PostgreSQL snapshot directly.
Learn what your peers think about Amazon Aurora. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: May 2026.
893,221 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Adnan Shafiq - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President - Database Management (Principal Solutions Architect) at Northbay
Apr 30, 2025
Amazon Aurora should upgrade its base PostgreSQL versions more frequently and offer all PostgreSQL extensions.
Prabakar Vellaipandian - PeerSpot reviewer
Staff Software Engineer at Altimetrik (Deployed at FORD)
Feb 7, 2025
In Oracle, tools like Veridata allow for comparing databases and certifying data accuracy, even offering repair capabilities, which are missing in Aurora. There should be a similar comparison tool in Aurora.
Girish Mukim - PeerSpot reviewer
AWS Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Dec 2, 2024
One of the most valuable features is storage scaling.
Peter J Matra - PeerSpot reviewer
Web Developer and IT Consultant at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 2, 2025
Sometimes mistakes can be easily made, and people can waste money by mistake if they do not know what they are doing.
Rajitha Jatothu - PeerSpot reviewer
Aws Devops Engineer at LTIMindtree
Dec 20, 2024
Room for improvement might be in the UI, integrations, or data working capabilities for better user experience.
Abhijit Gautam - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud - Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 27, 2024
While Amazon Aurora meets your current scaling and storage needs, there is room for improvement in cryptography and scalability compared to other databases.
PP
CTO at Atulya Abhinav Tech Private Limited
Feb 25, 2025
There are tuning challenges.