The RDS Blue/Green Deployments feature is available on Aurora with MySQL Compatibility 5.6 or higher, RDS for MySQL major version 5.6 or higher, and RDS for MariaDB 10.2 and higher.

According to Amazon, the Aurora MySQL database engine adds storage in 10GB increments or on an as-needed basis with a maximum storage capacity of 64TB. It scales linearly as more data is added ...

So it built Aurora in-house. AWS customers can also call on MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL as database engines when using RDS.

In 2009, AWS pioneered fully-managed cloud database services for open-source database management systems (DBMS) with the launch of Amazon Relational Database Service, or Amazon RDS. The ambition was ...

Today, hundreds of thousands of customers, including Airbnb, Atlassian, and Samsung, rely on Aurora, a fully managed MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database that provides the ...

AWS offers a hosted version of MySQL on RDS but will encourage new users to opt for Aurora instead. Users can easily deploy their MySQL scripts and queries on Aurora instances, according to Amazon.

AWS announced the general availability of a new version of its Aurora database this week called Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized. The big news from this version is that it gets rid of all I/O charges ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched AWS Aurora – a MySQL-compatible database engine for its relational database service, billed by analysts as a “database game-changer” – at its re:Invent ...

The Relational Database Service from AWS can help streamline a host of cloud storage operations, but maintaining security requires some attention on the part of the user. Here are some best ...

AWS announced a new version of the Amazon Aurora database today that strips out all I/O operations costs, which could result in big savings.