Amazon Aurora
Amazon Aurora is a fully managed relational database service compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL, offered as part of Amazon Web Services (AWS). It provides high performance, scalability, and availability by using a distributed, fault-tolerant storage system that automatically replicates data across multiple Availability Zones. Aurora is designed to deliver up to five times the throughput of standard MySQL and three times that of PostgreSQL while maintaining compatibility with existing applications.
Developers should use Amazon Aurora when building cloud-native applications on AWS that require high-performance, scalable, and highly available relational databases, such as e-commerce platforms, SaaS applications, or data-intensive workloads. It is particularly valuable for reducing administrative overhead with automated backups, patching, and replication, and for use cases needing low-latency read replicas or global database deployments. Aurora Serverless offers cost-effective scaling for unpredictable workloads.