Amazon Web Services Makes Amazon Aurora Available to All Customers

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Amazon's (AMZN) AWS Unit Announces General Availability of Amazon urora

July 28, 2015 8:00 AM EDT

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (Nasdaq: AMZN), 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... More