Tag: Aurora

Anurag Gupta runs a number of AWS database services, including HAQM Aurora, which he helped design. In this under the hood series, Anurag discusses the design considerations and technology underpinning Aurora. In my last post, I talked about the benefits of using a quorum model. I discussed how such systems are resilient in the face […]

Anurag Gupta runs a number of AWS database services, including HAQM Aurora, which he helped design. In this Under the Hood series, Anurag discusses the design considerations and technology underpinning Aurora. HAQM Aurora storage is a highly distributed system that needs to meet the stringent performance, availability, and durability requirements of a high-end relational database. […]

Sandeep Kariro is a big data architect and Akm Raziul is a database architect at HAQM Web Services. Enterprises have been using closed-source database systems for more than four decades. Managing data with these systems has been a critical part of running a successful business in every organization. You have to make a considerable investment […]

Linda Wu is a product manager at HAQM Web Services. When we built HAQM Aurora a few years ago, we had the following tenets in mind: Combine the speed and availability of a high-end commercial database with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source. Deliver full compatibility with the popular open-source database MySQL so that […]

February 9, 2024: HAQM Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to HAQM Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. We find that customers running AWS workloads often use both HAQM DynamoDB and HAQM Aurora. HAQM DynamoDB is a fast and flexible NoSQL database service for all applications that need consistent, single-digit millisecond latency […]

Eduphoria is making great use of HAQM Aurora and other AWS database services. In this guest post, you can learn about how they use HAQM Aurora to scale their read workload while saving costs. This post was written by Aaron Dulaney, director of infrastructure operations at Eduphoria. At Eduphoria, we provide K–12 educators the tools […]

Anurag Gupta runs a number of AWS database services, including HAQM Aurora, which he helped design. In the Under the Hood series, Anurag discusses the design considerations and technology underpinning Aurora. HAQM Aurora is a MySQL-compatible database that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. […]

Ed Murray is a manager at HAQM Web Services. When faced with the prospect of scaling your relational workload, you have generally had two options available: scale up or scale out. Scaling up is easy—just buy a bigger database host. Scaling out is more difficult. It requires you to shard your database into several physically […]

Ed Murray is a manager at HAQM Web Services. This blog post gives you a quick overview of how you can use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) and AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to facilitate and simplify migrating your commercial database to HAQM Aurora. In this case, we focus on migrating from […]

At re:Invent, we announced a number of new features for HAQM Aurora, the MySQL-compatible relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Today we are happy to announce that our advanced auditing feature is now available to all customers. What is […]