Amazon Aurora now fully compatible with both MySQL and
PostgreSQL, delivering the performance and availability of high-end
commercial databases at one-tenth the cost
Preview starts today; participants include Fannie Mae, Capital
One, C3 IoT, Technology One, and FINRA
Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an
Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), 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.
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. With Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
compatibility, the growing number of enterprises that are embracing
PostgreSQL for its user-defined functions and data types, complex
SQL support, NoSQL and JSON support, and broad application
development language support, now have another reason to bring
their production databases to AWS and break free from the cost and
complexity of traditional commercial grade databases.
“When we made Amazon Aurora available last year, for the first
time, customers had a real alternative to commercial databases like
Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. And, our release of the AWS
Database Migration Service kicked off a mass migration, as
customers have used the service to migrate over 14,000 databases
this year,” said Raju Gulabani, Vice President, Databases,
Analytics, and AI, Amazon Web Services. “Today, Amazon Aurora is
powering a wide range of production applications for companies of
all sizes and industries – from massive Internet of Things (IoT)
applications to mission-critical e-commerce sites. Many customers
have told us they would migrate even more of their sophisticated
enterprise applications if we made Amazon Aurora compatible with
PostgreSQL in addition to MySQL. We are excited to provide this
choice to help our customers free themselves from the expensive
legacy databases they use today.”
Amazon Aurora delivers up to several times better performance
than standard MySQL and PostgreSQL databases by using a variety of
software and hardware techniques to ensure the database engine is
able to fully leverage available compute, memory, and networking.
In addition, Amazon Aurora storage scales automatically, growing
and rebalancing Input and Outputs (I/O) across the fleet to provide
consistent performance without over-provisioning. For example, a
customer can start with a database of 10GB and have it
automatically grow up to 64TB, without requiring any downtime.
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 30 seconds, without crashing 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.
FINRA is the largest independent securities regulator in the
U.S., taking in up to 75 billion market events per day that are
tracked, aggregated, and analyzed for the purpose of protecting
investors in U.S. Markets. “FINRA is in the process of migrating
most of our relational databases away from Oracle and Microsoft,”
said Saman Michael Far, Senior Vice President & Chief
Technology Officer, FINRA. “We’re looking forward to using Amazon
Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility because PostgreSQL is the best
destination for our Oracle workloads.”
Fannie Mae is a source of financing for mortgage lenders,
providing access to affordable mortgage financing in all markets at
all times. “One of our biggest data challenges at Fannie Mae is
achieving the fault tolerance and disaster recovery objectives for
our databases. The products we use for this in our Oracle
environments create maintenance challenges and make our databases
less flexible,” says Nate Den Herder, Senior Director of Financial
Engineering, Fannie Mae. “This is the key driver behind our switch
to Amazon Aurora for new projects in AWS. We have been eagerly
awaiting PostgreSQL compatibility in Amazon Aurora so that we can
use the automated resiliency across availability zones to solve one
of our most difficult engineering challenges, and help us serve our
customers better.”
Capital One offers a broad spectrum of financial products and
services to consumers, small businesses, and commercial clients
through a variety of channels. “At Capital One, we are taking a
cloud first approach to all new development, and our use of the AWS
Cloud helps us to focus our efforts on innovations that directly
benefit our customers,” said Diane Lye, Senior Vice President of
Enterprise Data Services and Enterprise Architecture, Capital One.
“The introduction of PostgreSQL compatibility for Amazon Aurora
supports our needs as it provides an AWS offering for large-scale
relational database management systems, with sufficient capacity to
handle our massive operational workloads, as well as the
performance, availability, and fast-failover capabilities we need
to serve our customers.”
Infor is one of the world’s leading providers of enterprise
applications, with more than 90,000 customers in more than 170
countries, and is all-in on AWS for the Infor CloudSuite product
family. “We went all-in on AWS in March 2014 to help us focus our
resources on innovations in our enterprise applications,” said
Brian Rose, Senior Vice President, Infor. “PostgreSQL is a linchpin
in our strategy to migrate away from costly and high maintenance
commercial database platforms, and we are excited to leverage the
PostgreSQL compatibility in Amazon Aurora to offer our customers an
alternative database platform underneath our applications.”
C3 IoT provides a high-productivity enterprise machine learning
application development platform with their applications applying
advanced machine learning to recommend actions based on real-time
analysis of petabyte-scale data sets, dozens of enterprise and
extraprise data sources, and telemetry data from hundreds of
millions of endpoints. “Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility
provides C3 IoT with the opportunity to scale relational-based
workloads in the C3 IoT Platform to much higher levels, providing
better performance and higher availability at lower costs,” said
Houman Behzadi, Chief Product Officer, C3 IoT.
TechnologyOne is Australia's largest enterprise software
company, with their software powering over 1,000 leading
corporations, government departments, and statutory authorities
across the globe. “TechnologyOne delivers enterprise software as a
service. Our deep innovation brings the cloud closer to our
customers, and delivers better outcomes than can be achieved on
premises,” says Iain Rouse, Group Director of Cloud, TechnologyOne.
“We are very excited that Amazon Aurora is now compatible with
PostgreSQL. In our tests, we were able to use it with zero changes
to our software or schema, and it is so fast that we'll be able to
operate at a level at least 10x faster than SQL Server Enterprise
Edition – and without 50 pages of license agreements. This is
transformational for our business and our customers – we are all in
with AWS and it remains the best decision.”
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