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Amazon Aurora - Database Management Software

Amazon Aurora Reviews in September 2026: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

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Amazon Aurora Reviews & Ratings

4.69

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Based on 213 ratings & 213 reviews

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Spotsaas Editor’s POV

Amazon Aurora stands out as an exceptional database solution, offering a plethora of advantageous features according to recent user feedback. Users appreciate its efficiency, scalability, and the ease with which it integrates with MySQL and PostgreSQL. The managed service aspect of Amazon Aurora receives high praise for its security and compatibility, making it a ...Read more

Amazon Aurora pros and cons

  • Highly efficient with 15 read replications for improved performance.

  • Easy to use and deploy, especially for commercial purposes.

  • Managed service with security, scalability, and compatibility with MySQL and PostgresSQL.

  • Good performance in terms of database backup and cloud data storage.

  • Intimidating richness of features and customizations, requiring assistance for newcomers.

  • Limited selection in the Marketplace for additional apps and connectors, limiting advanced functionalities.

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UI

User in Information Technology and Services

11/26/18

4.5 out of 5

Aurora

What do you like best? Auraroas postgress implementation is miuch better than using postgress for an enterprise scale. It scales up much better than postgress What do you dislike? So far I am in the experimental phase, have not rolled it up for production, hence can not comment much about the dislikes. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Database persistence

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M P

11/26/18

5 out of 5

Arurora allows us to scale in a secure manner

What do you like best? Amazon Aurora makes scaling databases up, or out, trivial and fast. What do you dislike? Aurora needs a bit more visibility into what's happening within the database (expand capabilities of Performance Insights), What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Moving several large databases from physical hardware with limited capabilities into a system that allows us to scale trivially and that also enables features that ...

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Consultant in Retail

10/03/18

5 out of 5

Relational database specific for cloud

What do you like best? Faster than SQL Dbs. Scalable. Secure, Availability. What do you dislike? There is nothing in this product that we donot like What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We have used this for launching our Retail analytics for a large retail client. Faster transaction processing

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ann w

09/29/18

4.5 out of 5

The best database management

What do you like best? The software provides recurrent and automated upgrades, and this makes our organization’s database system to be current with the latest features. Also, because the software uses MySQL as its basic database, it is very easy to discover focused people to work. Amazon Aurora has a social database management system and this makes it easy to develop and create new databases. What do you dislike? The cost of this product is a little bit high. Also, the ability of ...

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Administrator in Retail

09/28/18

5 out of 5

Amazon Aurora

What do you like best? The thing I like best about Amazon Aurora it is fully compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL, so MySQL applications and tools can be run without any problem. What do you dislike? Truth be told, I don't have anything to dislike at the moment. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Cloud hosting and managing databases have never been easier

UI

User in Information Technology and Services

09/24/18

4.5 out of 5

easy to use

What do you like best? simplicity , usebulity, flexibbility, functionality, a good documentations What do you dislike? for now as a new user, it looks good to me. i need to explore more eeeply What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? integration

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Alejandra H

09/21/18

4 out of 5

Amazon aurora is a fast and reliable database

What do you like best? This software allows you to create high-end commercial databases in a very simple way. The best thing about Amazon Aurora is that it is fully compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL, so MySQL applications and tools can be run without any problem. In addition, it offers high availability and performance. On the other hand, the storage of this software is completely error tolerant and the information is automatically recovered. Another advantage of Amazon Aurora is that ...

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UI

User in Hospital & Health Care

09/18/18

3.5 out of 5

Review of the product

What do you like best? Ability to have a fast an efficient database that allows me to store things easier and to help when there are errors or viruses or potential crashes. What do you dislike? I like everything that I have used with this program. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? A database that is cheaper and easier to use

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Amit K

09/17/18

4 out of 5

Among Best RDS

What do you like best? Its very highly available and durable, very secure using SSL, provide very high level of performance, good thing to support mySQL and Postgress DB. We can create and test difference database warehouse technology without having to know much about the installation and configuration of the same. Which is a huge plus if we are not a trained DBA for each different database technology. What do you dislike? It can be more expensive for starting company because we have ...

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Administrator in Computer Software

09/15/18

3.5 out of 5

Amazon Aurora diversity

What do you like best? Amazon Aurora is a very diverse engine which delivers with quite a punch. Giving products like MySQL a definite run for their money. What do you dislike? If want a smaller database you have to go with a product like MySQL. Aurora will handle r3.large and larger databases like a champ. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Amazon Aurora is designed to offer greater than 99.99% availability and as it moves somewhat ...

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