Category: Amazon Aurora

Back when I was young, InfoWorld was a tabloid-sized journal that chronicled the growth of the PC industry. Every week I would await the newest issue and read it cover to cover, eager to learn all about the latest and greatest hardware and software. I always enjoyed and appreciated the reviews — they were unfailingly […]

Updated on February 17th, 2026 – Encryption at rest is now enabled by default for all new Aurora clusters. You can benefit from enhanced security and simplified compliance at no cost and without any configuration effort. — We launched Amazon Aurora a little over a year ago (see my post, Amazon Aurora – New Cost-Effective […]

We announced Amazon Aurora last year at AWS re:Invent (see Amazon Aurora – New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon for more info).  With storage replicated both within and across three Availability Zones, along with an update model driven by quorum writes, Amazon Aurora is designed to deliver high performance and 99.99% availability while easily […]