Amazon Aurora
A fully managed relational database that scales automatically while maintaining compatibility with PostgreSQL and MySQL.
- Vendor
- Amazon Web Services
- Also known as
- amazon-aurora
Available worldwide
What is Amazon Aurora?
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.
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
- Full
- Highest isolation level
- -
- Consistency
- Strong
- Horizontal scale
- Natively distributed
- Replication
- -
- Automatic failover / HA
- ✓
- Deployment
- Serverless
- Serverless / scale-to-zero
- ✓
- Wire compatibility
- Postgres protocol
- Extensions / plugins / UDFs
- -
- Licence class
- Proprietary
- JSON / document support
- -
- Geo / spatial
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Amazon Aurora FAQ
Common questions about Amazon Aurora, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is 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. It is indexed under Relational Databases.
Source: https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_sgm
Is Amazon Aurora free?
Amazon Aurora offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
What platforms does Amazon Aurora support?
We have confirmed browser-based access to Amazon Aurora. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.
Can Amazon Aurora be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Amazon Aurora, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
Source: https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_sgm
What security certifications does Amazon Aurora have?
We have independently confirmed HIPAA and GDPR for Amazon Aurora. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Amazon Aurora not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Amazon Aurora alternatives
Other relational databases we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- SupabasePostgreSQL hosting with pricing that scales based on your usagemedium · 70%
- NeonA serverless PostgreSQL platform designed for scalable application and agent deploymentmedium · 70%
- PlanetScaleManaged cloud databases built on sharded MySQL and PostgreSQL for high-scale applicationsmedium · 70%
- MySQLWidely-used open-source SQL database systemmedium · 53%
- CockroachDBA distributed SQL database that automatically scales horizontally across multiple nodes while maintaining transactional consistency and high availability.medium · 65%
- PostgreSQLAn established, feature-rich open source relational database system with strong reliabilitymedium · 60%
Compare Amazon Aurora
Side by side against other relational databases, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI 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 | 0.07 | 6.8 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 35 | 0.12 | 4.3 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 46 | 0.04 | 1.7 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 25 | 0.05 | 1.4 | ✓ |
| Price level | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.04 | 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.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 5 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 66% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Sql model: full_sql · Deployment: serverless · Serverless: Yes · Consistency: strong · License class: proprietary · Horizontal scale: distributed_native | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure policy | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
| Trust center | https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/?nc2=h_dsc_aa_cmp | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 60% |
| Fedramp | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 75% |
| Gdpr | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 75% |
| Hipaa | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 75% |
| Pci | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 75% |
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