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
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.
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