Comparison

Amazon Aurora vs Neon

On the evidence we track, Neon leads this comparison with a composite score of 79/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Amazon Aurora full profile →Neon full profile →

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Amazon Aurora50

★Neon79

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	Amazon Aurora	NeonLeader
Vioscale score	50 / 100low · 48%	79 / 100medium · 71%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✓
Modelpricing.model	freemium	freemium
Price levelpricing.price_level	-	low
Transparentpricing.transparent	-	✓
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	-	1
Security
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	✓	-
Fedrampsecurity.fedramp	✓	✓
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	✓	✓
Hipaasecurity.hipaa	✓	✓
Iso27001security.iso27001	-	✓
Pcisecurity.pci	✓	✓
Soc2security.soc2	-	✓
Reliability
Sla pctreliability.sla_pct	99.999	99.95
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	✓
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide	-

Score

Vioscale score

Amazon Aurora50 / 100low · 48%

Neon79 / 100medium · 71%

Pricing

Free tier

Amazon Aurora✓

Neon✓

Model

Amazon Aurorafreemium

Neonfreemium

Price level

Amazon Aurora–

Neonlow

Transparent

Amazon Aurora–

Neon✓

Integrations

Count

Amazon Aurora–

Neon1

Security

Disclosure policy

Amazon Aurora✓

Neon–

Fedramp

Amazon Aurora✓

Neon✓

Gdpr

Amazon Aurora✓

Neon✓

Hipaa

Amazon Aurora✓

Neon✓

Iso27001

Amazon Aurora–

Neon✓

Pci

Amazon Aurora✓

Neon✓

Soc2

Amazon Aurora–

Neon✓

Reliability

Sla pct

Amazon Aurora99.999

Neon99.95

Status page

Amazon Aurora✓

Neon✓

Market

Availability

Amazon AuroraAvailable worldwide

Neon–

Capabilities

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

Capability comparison for Relational Databases
Capability	Amazon Aurora	Neon
Core
SQL model	Full SQL	Full SQL
Transactions
ACID transactions	Full	Full
Highest isolation level	-	Serializable
Consistency
Consistency	Strong	Strong
Scale
Horizontal scale	Natively distributed	Read replicas
Replication
Replication	-	Async
Availability
Automatic failover / HA	✓	✓
Deployment
Deployment	Serverless	Managed
Serverless / scale-to-zero	✓	✓
Compatibility
Wire compatibility	Postgres protocol	Postgres protocol
Extensibility
Extensions / plugins / UDFs	-	-
Licensing
Licence class	Proprietary	Proprietary
Data types
JSON / document support	-	-
Geo / spatial	-	-

Core

SQL model

Amazon AuroraFull SQL

NeonFull SQL

Transactions

ACID transactions

Amazon AuroraFull

NeonFull

Highest isolation level

Amazon Aurora-

NeonSerializable

Consistency

Amazon AuroraStrong

NeonStrong

Scale

Horizontal scale

Amazon AuroraNatively distributed

NeonRead replicas

Replication

Amazon Aurora-

NeonAsync

Availability

Automatic failover / HA

Amazon Aurora✓

Neon✓

Deployment

Amazon AuroraServerless

NeonManaged

Serverless / scale-to-zero

Amazon Aurora✓

Neon✓

Compatibility

Wire compatibility

Amazon AuroraPostgres protocol

NeonPostgres protocol

Extensibility

Extensions / plugins / UDFs

Amazon Aurora-

Neon-

Licensing

Licence class

Amazon AuroraProprietary

NeonProprietary

Data types

JSON / document support

Amazon Aurora-

Neon-

Geo / spatial

Amazon Aurora-

Neon-

What each one is

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

Amazon Aurora

Aurora is a serverless, relational database service offering zero infrastructure management and instant scaling. It provides 6x the throughput of standard PostgreSQL and MySQL while maintaining full compatibility with both.

Independently observed

Neon

Leader

Neon is a managed Postgres database service that automatically scales compute and storage based on workload demands. It features instant database branching for testing and development, point-in-time restore capability, and maintains SOC2 and HIPAA compliance.

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

Pricing not documented yet.

Neon

Leader

from $0.00/moUsage-basedFree tier

Free tier with 100 CU-hours/mo. Usage-based: Launch plan $0.106/CU-hr + $0.35/GB-mo, Scale plan $0.222/CU-hr + $0.35/GB-mo. Typical $15–$701/mo.

FreeFree
- 100 projects
- 100 CU-hours monthly per project
- 0.5 GB storage per project
- Compute up to 2 CU (8 GB RAM)
- Unlimited team members
- +4 more
LaunchUsage-based, typical $15/mo (intermittent load, 1 GB)
- Compute autoscaling up to 16 CU
- Scale to zero when inactive
- Database storage with 7-day instant restore history
- 100 snapshots
- Monitoring with 3-day retention
- +4 more
ScaleUsage-based, typical $701/mo (high load, 100 GB)
- Compute autoscaling up to 56 CU
- Configurable scale-to-zero
- Database storage with up to 30-day instant restore history
- 100 snapshots
- SLAs included
- +8 more

as of 2026-08-03verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	Amazon Aurora	Neon
WebPlatforms	✓	✓
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✓

Platforms

Web

Amazon Aurora✓

Neon✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Amazon Aurora✓

Neon✓

Integrations

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

Amazon Aurora

Not documented yet.

Neon

Leader

1 total

Datadog

Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.