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Amazon Aurora

Composite Score
8.3 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10
Category
Amazon Aurora
8.3 /10

What is Amazon Aurora?

Amazon Aurora is a relational database engine that combines the speed and reliability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Amazon Aurora provides unparalleled high-performance and availability at global scale with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. Amazon Aurora provides built-in security, continuous backups, serverless compute, up to 15 read replicas, automated multi-Region replication, and integrations with other AWS services.

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Awards & Recognition

Amazon Aurora won the following awards in the Transaction Data Store category

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Amazon Aurora Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

90 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+93 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Amazon Aurora?

0% Negative
5% Neutral
95% Positive

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Includes Product Enhancements
  • Reliable
  • Acts with Integrity

Feature Ratings

Average 87

Database Management

92

High Availability

90

Data Protection and Security

89

Data Backup

88

Distributed Processing

88

Data Management

88

High Speed & Online Transaction Processing

87

Operations Management

86

Systems Performance Management

86

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment

85

Analytics and Reporting

83

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Breadth of Features

86

Quality of Features

86

Ease of IT Administration

84

Business Value Created

84

Ease of Data Integration

84

Ease of Implementation

83

Vendor Support

81

Usability and Intuitiveness

81

Ease of Customization

79

Availability and Quality of Training

77

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

75

Amazon Aurora Reviews

Ahmed A.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Healthcare
  • Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

Cost-Effective, Reliable & Secure RDB

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Amazon Aurora from other similar products?

Amazon Aurora offering a fully-managed, MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible, relational database service that combines the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases, Amazon Aurora provides high availability, with up to 15 replicas, and makes it easy to replicate data across Availability Zones, Also offers automated backups, point-in-time recovery, and encryption at rest, making it an excellent choice for any organization looking for a reliable and secure relational database solution.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect of Amazon Aurora is its scalability and cost-effectiveness. With Aurora, You can quickly and easily scale databases to meet any needs, while maintaining the same high level of performance and reliability, Amazon Aurora is much more cost-effective than other similar products, making it an excellent choice for any businesses looking for a reliable, cost-effective, and fault-tolerant relational database.

What do you dislike most about this product?

One thing I dislike most about Amazon Aurora is that it doesn't currently offer built-in support for advanced data analytics, graph databases, and machine learning, It would be helpful if Amazon Aurora could offer simplified integration with other AWS services, such as Amazon Redshift, Amazon SageMaker, and Amazon EMR, Also support for distributed transactions across multiple databases would make it easier to ensure data integrity across multiple systems.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

My recommendation to Anyone considering Amazon Aurora is to take advantage of its scalability, cost-effectiveness, and reliability, make sure to take advantage of its automated backups, point-in-time recovery, and encryption at rest, Be sure to consider any additional features you may need, such as advanced data analytics, graph databases, and machine learning, before making your final decision.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Aparna S.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2022

Highly relisble database

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Amazon Aurora from other similar products?

Amazon aurora provides great backup features across mutiple availabilty zones which makes it a highly reliable database for us.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The best part of amazon aurora is the AWS Amazon aurora provides greate documentation for users to setup, configure and instantly spin up databse clusters.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I do not find any dislikes of Amazon aurora. It has been nothign but excellent to use and build applications on top of it

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would reccommend Amazon aurora for buisnesses who want to store high volume of data.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

Michael A.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Insurance
  • Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2022

A solution that simply solves and solidly delivers

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Amazon Aurora from other similar products?

Ease of transforming database workflows many are extremely familiar with both on premise and in cloud and facilitating new potentials... all while achieving greater than ever speed and efficiency

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Dependability, delivery of performance

What do you dislike most about this product?

What is there to dislike? The Amazon products are stellar leaders in the cloud and the only aspects to like less are the yesterdays iterations as they continue to pave new pathways to deliver new potentials.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Definitely check it out and consider it in your technology roadmapping / cloud architecting

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

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