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PROS

Amazon Aurora offers excellent maintainability by offloading administrative tasks to the service provider, requiring no database maintenance from users.
It provides valuable features such as multiple-read and single-write capabilities, which are natively supported.
The compatibility with MySQL or PostgreSQL allows seamless migration without changing the source code, enhancing database management.
Amazon Aurora is renowned for its inbuilt security, continuous backups, and seamless integration with other AWS services, along with enterprise-level features at a lower cost.
It excels in performance and availability, making it a cornerstone for users seeking reliability and efficiency.

CONS

Some clients find Aurora costly, with suggestions to improve pricing.
There is a need for performance insights on the database based on queries, as SolarWinds offers more extensive insights.
Amazon should focus more on developer features and provide a stand-alone version outside its web-based offerings.
Challenges exist during migration from PostgreSQL RDS to Aurora, including technical issues with provisioning databases using PostgreSQL snapshots.
The base PostgreSQL versions should be updated more frequently, along with offering all PostgreSQL extensions.
 

Amazon Aurora Pros review quotes

GM
Oct 28, 2022
The most valuable feature is the ability to do multiple-read and single-write. These are the kinds of features that we were interested in, and Aurora takes care of that natively.
Abhijit Gautam - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 27, 2024
Amazon Aurora stands out for its ease of use in a managed environment, inbuilt security, continuous backups, numerous read replicas, multi-region automated replication, and seamless integration with other AWS services.
NaveenJadav - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 7, 2022
The most valuable feature is that the maintainability is offloaded to the service provider. I don't have to maintain a database or do any administrative tasks, which comes in handy.
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Rubens Oliveira - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 23, 2025
Amazon Aurora's best features are about scaling up and scaling down, which is perfect.
Rajitha Jatothu - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 20, 2024
Aurora is a key pillar for us, offering performance and availability.
Adnan Shafiq - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 30, 2025
Amazon Aurora is built on community databases and AWS has added additional features to it, allowing customers to have enterprise-level features at a lower cost.
JK
Nov 27, 2024
Aurora's features that I find the most beneficial include its database backup strategy, performance options, and input-output operations.
Prabakar Vellaipandian - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 7, 2025
The most valuable features of Amazon Aurora include the global instance with the global writer endpoint, which allows failovers and instance switches without requiring changes in my code, thanks to the default global Route 53 endpoint.
Girish Mukim - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 2, 2024
One of the most valuable features is storage scaling.
Harvinder Singh Bhogal - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 1, 2023
The provision of custom read and write endpoints eliminates the need for managing a separate proxy load balancer.
 

Amazon Aurora Cons review quotes

GM
Oct 28, 2022
The pricing could improve. It should be reduced.
Abhijit Gautam - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 27, 2024
While Amazon Aurora meets your current scaling and storage needs, there is room for improvement in cryptography and scalability compared to other databases.
NaveenJadav - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 7, 2022
It is a bit costly. The features are quite good, and I wouldn't say it requires any technical improvements. But from a cost perspective, some clients wouldn't go for Aurora because of that.
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Rubens Oliveira - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 23, 2025
I don't use Amazon Aurora's global database feature; I just use the local feature.
Rajitha Jatothu - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 20, 2024
Room for improvement might be in the UI, integrations, or data working capabilities for better user experience.
Adnan Shafiq - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 30, 2025
Amazon Aurora should upgrade its base PostgreSQL versions more frequently and offer all PostgreSQL extensions.
Prabakar Vellaipandian - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 7, 2025
In Oracle, tools like Veridata allow for comparing databases and certifying data accuracy, even offering repair capabilities, which are missing in Aurora. There should be a similar comparison tool in Aurora.
Girish Mukim - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 2, 2024
One of the most valuable features is storage scaling.
Harvinder Singh Bhogal - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 1, 2023
The product's distributed query process for MySQL needs improvement.
SP
Mar 6, 2025
A challenge I noticed is during migration from PostgreSQL RDS to Amazon Aurora. There are technical challenges, such as the inability to provision the database using a PostgreSQL snapshot directly.