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Aurora

Aurora

- [Instructor] Amazon Aurora is one of the six relational database engines that you can use in Amazon Relational Database Service, or RDS. It's fully managed by Amazon RDS, which relieves engineers of having to engage in time consuming administrative work, like provisioning, database setup, and maintenance. Instead, it allows the engineers to focus on coding. You can monitor performance using various AWS monitoring and alerting services so you can quickly detect performance issues. It's MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible, but up to five times faster than standard MySQL and three times faster than standard PostgreSQL databases. You can get the same security, availability, and reliability of commercial databases for just 1/10 of the cost. You can have databases scaling all the way up to 64 terabytes per instance, hosted on distributed, fault-tolerant, self-healing storage systems with low latency. You can migrate existing MySQL or PostgreSQL databases onto AWS using AWS Database Migration…

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