Amazon’s revved-up database service offers five times the throughput of MySQL and a formidable alternative to Oracle and SQL Server The 20-year-old MySQL database is the world’s most widely used open ...

After nine months of testing, Amazon Web Services is now offering its Aurora database as a full commercial service, positioning it as a high-performance alternative to the widely used open source ...

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At its re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas, Amazon.com (AMZN) unveiled Aurora, a new relational database service. The company took three years to build Aurora. Historically, while zeroing down ...

With Wednesday’s preview release of a new database service called Aurora, Amazon Web Services claims to have supercharged the open source MySQL with the high performance, reliability, and scalability ...

Amazon’s Relational Database Service, launched in 2009, promised cloud-hosted MySQL on demand, eventually adding SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL as well. On Wednesday, Amazon announced a new ...

After nine months of testing, Amazon Web Services is now offering its Aurora database as a full commercial service, positioning it as a high-performance alternative to the widely used open source ...