Amazon Aurora Reviews

I am using Amazon Aurora as a relational database. Our applications for our business users are usually relatively internal application types which are mostly small, which makes data storage and retrieval quick and easy, especially when developing business applications where time is of the essence. Therefore, it is preferable to have a technology that allows developers to work quickly and seamlessly, without any complicated setup or extra steps.

When we use NoSQL databases the data comes at a high speed.

The most valuable feature of Amazon Aurora is SQL standardization, it doesn't have its own syntax which is good. It has a lot of hands-off self-management type of activities, such as log rolling and auto-scaling.

There is improvement needed to have more developer focus. Additionally, it would be helpful to have a stand-alone solution outside of Amazon. Amazon has a tendency to favor developing web-based clients, which may not always provide the fastest or most responsive solution as desired.

I have used Amazon Aurora within 12 months.

Amazon Aurora is stable, I have not had an issue with the solution.

The solution is highly scalable, this is the main reason we use it.

There is not any support for the solution. It is self-documenting and self-aware. They provide you with the tool to fix it yourself whenever there is an issue.

The initial setup of Amazon Aurora is one of the better experiences that I have had.

My advice to others who want to use this solution should go through the AWS foundation courses.

I rate Amazon Aurora an eight out of ten.

We had challenges in loading huge volumes of data quickly, with reports growing beyond a certain number of millions of rows. Despite indexing and applying filters, we experienced significant latency loading the related reports. That's why we looked into using Aurora. We monitored it for about six months and tweaked the database-related parameters, but we still didn't see much improvement. So we reverted to RDS.

We had better control over the parameters that we could tweak in terms of intermediate storage and better indexing capabilities.

It would have been helpful if they had provided some benchmarking numbers. If they had given those, we would have been able to make a more informed decision.

I have been using Amazon Aurora for six months. 

It is a stable solution for a specific business case.

It is a scalable solution. We had around 35 users.

My IT person has been involved in the setup, but they said it was easy.

It is an expensive solution. It is one of the reasons we shifted to RDS. 

I would check you to check your use cases and the pain points you have with the current database and then recommend you make a benchmarking comparison. 

In case of any specific requirements, we can evaluate if Amazon Aurora is a good fit. Overall, I would rate the solution a seven out of ten because our objective was not fulfilled.