New MySQL-compatible database provides the performance and
availability of high-end commercial databases at one-tenth the cost
Alfresco, Earth Networks, ISCS, Nasdaq, PG&E, WeTransfer, and Zumba
among the many customers adopting Amazon Aurora
SEATTLE -- (Business Wire)
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN),
today announced that Amazon Aurora, a MySQL-compatible database engine
that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial
databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source
databases, is now available to all customers. More than a thousand AWS
customers, including global enterprises and startups from a range of
industries, participated in the preview and saw that Amazon Aurora can
provide up to five times better performance than the typical MySQL
database, and availability as good or better than commercial databases –
at one-tenth the cost. These customers also found Amazon Aurora has the
scalability, durability, and reliability to run the most demanding
enterprise and Internet-scale applications – everything from massive
Internet of Things (IoT) applications to mission-critical e-commerce
sites. To get started with Amazon Aurora, visit http://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora.
Historically, customers have had to trade off critical capabilities like
high performance and mission-critical availability with an affordable
price when choosing database solutions. With Amazon Aurora, customers
get the best of both worlds – the performance and availability of the
highest-grade commercial databases at a cost more commonly associated
with open source databases. Highly durable and available, Amazon Aurora
automatically replicates data across multiple Availability Zones and
continuously backs up data to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3),
which is designed for 99.999999999 percent durability without
performance impact. Amazon Aurora is designed to offer greater than
99.99 percent availability and automatically detect and recover from
most database failures in less than 60 seconds, without crash recovery
or the need to rebuild database caches. Amazon Aurora continually
monitors instance health and if there is a failure, it will
automatically failover to a read replica without loss of data. Amazon
Aurora is now available as a database engine for Amazon Relational
Database Service (Amazon RDS) in the US East (N. Virginia), US West
(Oregon), and EU (Ireland) Regions, and will expand to additional
Regions in the coming months. Amazon RDS for MySQL customers can easily
convert their existing MySQL databases to Amazon Aurora with one click
in the AWS Management Console.
“Today’s commercial-grade databases are expensive, proprietary, high
lock-in, and come with punitive licensing terms that these database
providers are comfortable employing,” said Raju Gulabani, Vice
President, Database Services, AWS. “It’s why we rarely meet enterprises
who aren’t looking to escape from their commercial-grade database
solution. Now, with Amazon Aurora, companies can get at least the same
availability, durability, and security as commercial-grade databases for
one-tenth of the cost.”
Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) is one of the largest combination
natural gas and electric utilities in the world. “At PG&E, we’re very
focused on availability; when our databases are down, it adversely
affects service to our gas and electrical customers,” said Edward Wong,
Solutions Architect, PG&E. “Using Amazon Aurora, we can run many
replicas with millisecond latency. This means during a power event we
can handle large surges in traffic and still give our customers timely,
up-to-date information. In addition, spreading these replicas across
multiple AWS Availability Zones with automatic failover gives us
confidence that our databases will be there when we need them.”
Alfresco provides modern content management software built on opens
standards that unlocks the power of business-critical content. “Amazon
Aurora was able to satisfy all of our scale requirements with no
degradation in performance,” said John Newton, Founder and CTO,
Alfresco. “With Alfresco on Amazon Aurora we scaled to 1 billion
documents with a throughput of 3 million per hour, which is 10 times
faster than our MySQL environment. It just works!”
Zumba is a dance fitness program taken daily by over 15 million people
around the world. “Our existing MySQL databases perform millions of
transactions per day and we expect them to continue to grow,” said
Douglas Jarquin, Director of DevOps, Zumba. “Amazon Aurora will give us
better performance and scalability than MySQL, as well as lower latency
read replicas and we see an opportunity to use Amazon Aurora to improve
the latency of our website while also reducing the number of instances
required to run it. Best of all, Amazon Aurora’s MySQL-compatibility
means that we can use it without making changes to our existing
applications.”
Earth Networks operates the world’s largest and most comprehensive
weather observation, lightning detection, and climate (GHG) networks.
“At Earth Networks we are leveraging our big data smarts to deliver on
the promise of IoT and home energy efficiency. Our proprietary networks
process over 25 terabytes of real-time data daily, so we need a scalable
database that can rapidly grow with our expanding data analysis,” said
Eddie Dingels, Lead Architect, Earth Networks. “During our Amazon Aurora
preview, we were very impressed with how well Amazon Aurora scaled with
our highly concurrent workloads, and how easy it was to move from our
current SQL Server databases to Amazon Aurora; all with only a few
changes.”
ISCS is a leading provider of core system SaaS solutions for the
property and casualty insurance industry. “We project that the size and
throughput requirements of our relational databases will more than
double year-over-year for the next several years. We need a scaling
strategy that delivers reliable performance with growth, yet is simple
to operate,” said Doug Moore, CTO & VP, Consumer Experience, ISCS.
“Amazon Aurora’s ability to auto-grow database sizes all the way up to
64 TB, as well as provide consistent throughput and latency, is an
extremely promising approach to reducing our operational risk.”
WeTransfer is a leading file sharing service, providing a uniquely
creative space for people to share files. “At WeTransfer, we currently
use Amazon RDS for MySQL to perform millions of transactions per day
serving over 70 million worldwide users,” said Dave Forsey, CTO,
WeTransfer. “As these numbers continue to accelerate, we will need to
find an even more robust data platform. In the Amazon Aurora preview, we
have been impressed with Amazon Aurora’s performance, reliability, and
manageability and look forward to using it for our production workloads
in the future.”
AWS partners, including MariaDB, Tableau, Toad, Webyog, Navicat, and
Talend, have certified their products with Amazon Aurora, enabling
customers to use the tools they use today without change.
“As an AWS partner, MariaDB is excited that AWS is driving innovation in
the MySQL community, just like MariaDB is doing today. Amazon Aurora’s
cloud-optimized architecture, which is designed to deliver high
performance and high availability, is impressive,” said Monty Widenius,
CTO of the MariaDB Foundation and the creator of MySQL. “It is great to
see Amazon Aurora aiming to maintain MySQL compatibility such that
applications running on MariaDB/MySQL today, either on premises or in
the cloud, can run on Amazon Aurora without any change. MariaDB is
pleased to make our connectors available for Amazon Aurora, and we look
forward to working with the Amazon Aurora team in the future to further
accelerate innovation.”
Tableau Software helps people see and understand data. “We ran our
compatibility test suites against Amazon Aurora and everything just
worked,” said Dan Jewett, Vice President of Product Management at
Tableau. “Amazon Aurora paired with Tableau means data users can take
advantage of the 5x throughput Amazon Aurora provides and deliver faster
analytic insights throughout their organizations. We look forward to
offering our Amazon Aurora Tableau connector in the coming weeks.”
About Amazon Web Services
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services offers a robust, fully featured
technology infrastructure platform in the cloud comprised of a broad set
of compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and deployment
services from data center locations in the U.S., Australia, Brazil,
China, Germany, Ireland, Japan, and Singapore. More than a million
customers, including fast-growing startups, large enterprises, and
government agencies across 190 countries, rely on AWS services to
innovate quickly, lower IT costs and scale applications globally. To
learn more about AWS, visit http://aws.amazon.com.
About Amazon
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guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor
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