Aurora Deep Dive

High-Performance Cloud-Native Database

Aurora Architecture

Shared Storage

6 copies across 3 AZs, auto-scaling up to 128TB

Writer + Readers

1 writer, up to 15 read replicas

Fast Failover

< 30 seconds automatic failover

Aurora Serverless

v1 (Classic)

Auto-scaling, pay-per-use, pause/resume

v2 (Modern)

Instant scaling, fine-grained capacity

Global Database

Cross-Region Replication

< 1 second replication lag

Disaster Recovery

< 1 minute RTO for region failure

Global Reads

Up to 5 secondary regions

Performance Features

5x MySQL Performance

3x PostgreSQL performance

Parallel Query

Analytical queries run in parallel

Machine Learning

Built-in ML capabilities with SageMaker

Aurora Best Practices

  • • Use Aurora for high-performance, cloud-native applications
  • • Implement Aurora Serverless for variable workloads
  • • Use Global Database for disaster recovery and global applications
  • • Leverage read replicas for read-heavy workloads
  • • Monitor with Performance Insights and CloudWatch
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