Amazon RDS for Aurora
What is Amazon Aurora?
Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud that combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases.
Why Use Amazon Aurora?
With Amazon Aurora, you can benefit from the performance and availability of commercial-grade databases, but at only 10% of the cost. Our CleanSlate AWS experts utilize Amazon Aurora to provide multiple levels of security for our clients’ databases and enable them to easily scale database deployment up and down, from smaller to larger instance types as their needs change. Up to five times faster than standard MySQL databases and three times faster than standard PostgreSQL databases, you should be asking, “Why am I not using Amazon Aurora?”
Amazon Aurora Benefits
Fully Managed
No need to worry about database management tasks such as hardware provisioning, software patching, setup, configuration, or backups.
High-Availability & Durability
Designed to offer 99.99% availability, replicating 6 copies of your data across 3 Availability Zones.
Migration Support
MySQL compatibility make Amazon Aurora a compelling target for database migrations to the cloud.
Highly Secure
Provides multiple levels of security for your database.
Aws Service
Delivery Designations
Lambda
AWS Lambda enables an organization to reduce costs, realize unwavering performance, and run code without provisioning or managing servers.
Amazon API Gateway
Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that empowers developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs easily at any scale.
AWS DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB is a fast and flexible NoSQL database service that provides single-digit millisecond latency at any scale, plus much more.
AWS CloudFormation
Our experts utilize AWS CloudFormation to further automate resource management across your organization, apply DevOps best practices, and speed up cloud provisioning with infrastructure as code.
Windows Migration (EC2) and Optimization
Running and optimizing legacy Windows workloads on AWS and Amazon EC2 offers a secure, reliable, and high-performing environment for deploying and running Windows-based applications and workloads.
Amazon RDS for Aurora
Aurora is five times faster than standard MySQL databases and provides the security, availability, and reliability of commercial-grade databases at 10% of the cost. As your needs change, scale your database deployment up and down from smaller to larger instance types.
Amazon RDS for IBM DB2
Amazon RDS manages and automates time-consuming administrative tasks for your IBM Db2 Database. That includes provisioning, patching, prevention, backups, recovery, and repair, giving you the time you need to focus on your business.
Amazon RDS for Oracle
A fully managed commercial database that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale Oracle deployments in the cloud. There’s no need to maintain servers, and your applications have enhanced availability and reliability for production workloads.
Amazon RDS for MySQL
MySQL is a widely used open source relational database and Amazon RDS makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale MySQL deployments in the cloud. With Amazon RDS, you can deploy scalable MySQL servers in minutes with cost-efficient and resizable hardware capacity.
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