What is Amazon Aurora and how does it differ from standard Amazon RDS?

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What is Amazon Aurora and how does it differ from standard Amazon RDS?

Key points

  • Aurora provides up to 5x throughput of MySQL and 3x of PostgreSQL
  • Aurora replicates data across 3 AZs for high availability
  • Aurora offers self-healing storage for data durability

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