Comparison

Amazon Aurora vs YugabyteDB

On the evidence we track, YugabyteDB leads this comparison with a composite score of 59/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Amazon Aurora full profile →YugabyteDB full profile →

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Amazon Aurora50

★YugabyteDB59

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	Amazon Aurora	YugabyteDBLeader
Vioscale score	50 / 100low · 48%	59 / 100medium · 71%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✓
Modelpricing.model	freemium	commercial
Price levelpricing.price_level	-	high
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	-
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	✓
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide	-

Score

Vioscale score

Amazon Aurora50 / 100low · 48%

YugabyteDB59 / 100medium · 71%

Pricing

Free tier

Amazon Aurora✓

YugabyteDB✓

Model

Amazon Aurorafreemium

YugabyteDBcommercial

Price level

Amazon Aurora–

YugabyteDBhigh

Transparent

Amazon Aurora–

YugabyteDB✓

Integrations

Count

Amazon Aurora–

YugabyteDB1

Security

Disclosure policy

Amazon Aurora✓

YugabyteDB✓

Fedramp

Amazon Aurora✓

YugabyteDB–

Gdpr

Amazon Aurora✓

YugabyteDB✓

Hipaa

Amazon Aurora✓

YugabyteDB–

Iso27001

Amazon Aurora–

YugabyteDB✓

Pci

Amazon Aurora✓

YugabyteDB–

Soc2

Amazon Aurora–

YugabyteDB✓

Reliability

Sla pct

Amazon Aurora99.999

YugabyteDB–

Status page

Amazon Aurora✓

YugabyteDB✓

Market

Availability

Amazon AuroraAvailable worldwide

YugabyteDB–

Capabilities

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

Capability comparison for Relational Databases
Capability	Amazon Aurora	YugabyteDB
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	Natively distributed
Replication
Replication	-	Consensus (Raft/Paxos)
Availability
Automatic failover / HA	✓	✓
Deployment
Deployment	Serverless	Self-hosted
Serverless / scale-to-zero	✓	-
Compatibility
Wire compatibility	Postgres protocol	Postgres protocol
Extensibility
Extensions / plugins / UDFs	-	✓
Licensing
Licence class	Proprietary	Permissive OSS
Data types
JSON / document support	-	✓
Geo / spatial	-	-

Core

SQL model

Amazon AuroraFull SQL

YugabyteDBFull SQL

Transactions

ACID transactions

Amazon AuroraFull

YugabyteDBFull

Highest isolation level

Amazon Aurora-

YugabyteDBSerializable

Consistency

Amazon AuroraStrong

YugabyteDBStrong

Scale

Horizontal scale

Amazon AuroraNatively distributed

YugabyteDBNatively distributed

Replication

Amazon Aurora-

YugabyteDBConsensus (Raft/Paxos)

Availability

Automatic failover / HA

Amazon Aurora✓

YugabyteDB✓

Deployment

Amazon AuroraServerless

YugabyteDBSelf-hosted

Serverless / scale-to-zero

Amazon Aurora✓

YugabyteDB-

Compatibility

Wire compatibility

Amazon AuroraPostgres protocol

YugabyteDBPostgres protocol

Extensibility

Extensions / plugins / UDFs

Amazon Aurora-

YugabyteDB✓

Licensing

Licence class

Amazon AuroraProprietary

YugabyteDBPermissive OSS

Data types

JSON / document support

Amazon Aurora-

YugabyteDB✓

Geo / spatial

Amazon Aurora-

YugabyteDB-

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

YugabyteDB

Leader

A distributed SQL database designed for mission-critical transactional data, available as open source software or managed cloud services with multi-region and high-availability capabilities.

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.

YugabyteDB

Leader

from $125/moHybridFree tier

From $125/vCPU/month. Free tier available. Storage and data transfer costs additional.

Standard$125/vCPU/month
- PostgreSQL API (YSQL)
- Cassandra API (YCQL)
- Change Data Capture
- Single-region fault tolerance
- PostgreSQL extensions
- +7 more
Professional$167/vCPU/month
- All Standard features
- Multi-region stretched clusters
- Read Replicas
- Row-level geo-partitioning for data residency
- Performance Advisor
- +3 more
EnterpriseContact sales
- All Professional features
- Customer Managed Keys (CMK) encryption at rest
- Single Sign On via OpenID Connect (OIDC)

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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	YugabyteDB
WebPlatforms	✓	-
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✗	✓
HybridDeployment	✗	✓

Platforms

Web

Amazon Aurora✓

YugabyteDB–

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Amazon Aurora✓

YugabyteDB✓

Self-hosted

Amazon Aurora✗

YugabyteDB✓

Hybrid

Amazon Aurora✗

YugabyteDB✓

Integrations

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

Amazon Aurora

Not documented yet.

YugabyteDB

Leader

1 total

Arctype SQL Client

Independently observed

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