Amazon Aurora
Unparalleled high performance and availability at global scale for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and DSQL
- Also known as
- amazon-aurora
What is Amazon Aurora?
A serverless, relational database service offering zero infrastructure management, zero downtime maintenance, and instant scaling. Provides 6x the throughput of PostgreSQL and MySQL with full compatibility.
What Amazon Aurora does
The capabilities that matter for relational databases, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- SQL model
- Full SQL
- ACID transactions
- -
- Highest isolation level
- -
- Consistency
- -
- Horizontal scale
- Natively distributed
- Replication
- -
- Automatic failover / HA
- ✓
- Deployment
- Serverless
- Serverless / scale-to-zero
- ✓
- Wire compatibility
- -
- Extensions / plugins / UDFs
- ✓
- Licence class
- Proprietary
- JSON / document support
- -
- Geo / spatial
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Amazon Aurora alternatives
Other relational databases we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Amazon Aurora, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 100 | 10.00 | 999.5 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 58 | 17.00 | 982.8 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 25 | 8.00 | 200.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 0 | 6.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Integrations | 0 | 8.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 5 | 18.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"sql_model":"full_sql","deployment":"serverless","serverless":true,"extensibility":true,"license_class":"proprietary","horizontal_scale":"distributed_native","automatic_failover":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure policy | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |