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Comparison

Amazon Aurora vs EDB Postgres

On the evidence we track, Amazon Aurora leads this comparison with a composite score of 50/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Amazon Aurora full profile →EDB Postgres full profile →
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★Amazon Aurora50
EDB Postgres36
Score
vioscaleAI score
Amazon Aurora50 / 100low · 48%
EDB Postgres36 / 100medium · 72%
Pricing
Free tier
Amazon Aurora✓
EDB Postgres✓
Model
Amazon Aurorafreemium
EDB Postgresopen_source
Price level
Amazon Aurora–
EDB Postgresfree
Integrations
Count
Amazon Aurora–
EDB Postgres10
Security
Disclosure policy
Amazon Aurora✓
EDB Postgres✓
Fedramp
Amazon Aurora✓
EDB Postgres–
Gdpr
Amazon Aurora✓
EDB Postgres✓
Hipaa
Amazon Aurora✓
EDB Postgres–
Pci
Amazon Aurora✓
EDB Postgres–
Scorecard
Amazon Aurora–
EDB Postgres2.5
Soc2
Amazon Aurora–
EDB Postgres✓
Trust center
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Sla pct
Amazon Aurora99.999
EDB Postgres99.999
Status page
Amazon Aurora✓
EDB Postgres✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Amazon Aurora–
EDB Postgres1
Github stars
Amazon Aurora–
EDB Postgres67
Activity
Commits last 30d
Amazon Aurora–
EDB Postgres0
Release
Cadence days
Amazon Aurora–
EDB Postgres20
History
Amazon Aurora–
EDB Postgres20 items
Language
Primary
Amazon Aurora–
EDB PostgresPython
Market
Availability
Amazon AuroraAvailable worldwide
EDB Postgres–
Content
Faq
Amazon Aurora5 items
EDB Postgres5 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for relational databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
SQL model
Amazon AuroraFull SQL
EDB PostgresFull SQL
Transactions
ACID transactions
Amazon AuroraFull
EDB PostgresFull
Highest isolation level
Amazon Aurora-
EDB PostgresSerializable
Consistency
Consistency
Amazon AuroraStrong
EDB PostgresStrong
Scale
Horizontal scale
Amazon AuroraNatively distributed
EDB PostgresNatively distributed
Replication
Replication
Amazon Aurora-
EDB PostgresAsync
Availability
Automatic failover / HA
Amazon Aurora✓
EDB Postgres✓
Deployment
Deployment
Amazon AuroraServerless
EDB PostgresSelf-hosted
Serverless / scale-to-zero
Amazon Aurora✓
EDB Postgres✗
Compatibility
Wire compatibility
Amazon AuroraPostgres protocol
EDB PostgresPostgres protocol
Extensibility
Extensions / plugins / UDFs
Amazon Aurora-
EDB Postgres✓
Licensing
Licence class
Amazon AuroraProprietary
EDB PostgresPermissive OSS
Data types
JSON / document support
Amazon Aurora-
EDB Postgres✓
Geo / spatial
Amazon Aurora-
EDB Postgres-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Amazon Aurora

Leader

A hosted relational database service that requires no infrastructure management, automatically scales with demand, and ensures high availability across regions. It supports PostgreSQL and MySQL databases, and offers a distributed variant for larger-scale deployments.

Independently observed

EDB Postgres

An open-source command-line tool that automates the provisioning of cloud resources and deployment of PostgreSQL, EDB Postgres Advanced Server, and enterprise infrastructure including high availability, backup and recovery, monitoring, and connection pooling.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Amazon Aurora

Leader

Pricing not documented yet.

EDB Postgres

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Amazon Aurora✓
EDB Postgres✗
macOS
Amazon Aurora✗
EDB Postgres✓
Windows
Amazon Aurora✗
EDB Postgres✓
Linux
Amazon Aurora✗
EDB Postgres✓
CLI
Amazon Aurora✓
EDB Postgres✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Amazon Aurora✓
EDB Postgres✓
Self-hosted
Amazon Aurora✗
EDB Postgres✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Amazon Aurora

Leader

Not documented yet.

EDB Postgres

24 total
  • JDBC Connectors
  • MongoDB
  • Cassandra
  • Hadoop
  • HBASE
  • MySQL
  • Amazon S3
  • Parquet
  • Apache Spark
  • PEM (Postgres Enterprise Manager)
  • xDB Replication Server
  • EFM (EDB Failover Manager)
  • Backup and Recovery Tool
  • HARP
  • ETCD
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • PostgreSQL
  • EDB Postgres Advanced Server
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • PEM
  • EFM
Independently observed
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