tags: #publish links: [[AWS]], [[Databases]] created: 2021-07-22 Thu --- # AWS Aurora https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/ Amazon's own relational database, PostgreSQL and MySQL compatible - a flavour for use on [[AWS RDS]]. Fully managed with scalable storage system currently up to 128TB. Scalability is via read replicas. Continuous backup to [[S3]], point-in-time recovery. Claims to be faster than Postgres and MySQL ## Serverless https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/ Autoscaling of DB capacity, vs. the usual [[AWS RDS]] approach of provisioning a specific-sized instance with IOPS etc