by Angela Guess

According to a recent press release, “Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced it has added full PostgreSQL compatibility to Amazon Aurora, the AWS database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. With Amazon Aurora’s new PostgreSQL support, customers can get up to several times better performance than the typical PostgreSQL database and take advantage of the scalability, durability, and security capabilities of Amazon Aurora – all for one-tenth the cost of commercial grade databases. With no upfront costs or commitments required, customers pay a simple hourly charge for each Amazon Aurora database instance they use and can automatically scale storage capacity with no downtime or performance degradation. To learn more about Amazon Aurora, visit https://aws.amazon.com/aurora.”

The release goes on, “Historically, customers have had to choose between performance and price when evaluating database solutions. Commercial grade databases offer high performance and advanced availability features, but are expensive, complex to manage, have high lock-in, and come with punitive licensing terms. While popular open source databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL require less capital expense, customers often find they require extensive tuning and configuration to come close to commercial grade database performance levels. Because Amazon Aurora offers the best of both worlds – the performance and availability of the highest-grade commercial databases at a cost more commonly associated with open source – customers including GE Oil & Gas, Gumi, NASDAQ, Pearson Education, and Zynga have made it the fastest growing service in the history of AWS.”

Read more at Business Wire.

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