The RDS Blue/Green Deployments feature is available on Aurora with MySQL Compatibility 5.6 or higher, RDS for MySQL major version 5.6 or higher, and RDS for MariaDB 10.2 and higher.

Amazon announces three new code tools, a MySQL database engine for Amazon RDS, and other services at AWS cloud conference ...

So it built Aurora in-house. AWS customers can also call on MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL as database engines when using RDS.

In 2009, AWS pioneered fully-managed cloud database services for open-source database management systems (DBMS) with the launch of Amazon Relational Database Service, or Amazon RDS. The ambition was ...

AWS announced the general availability of a new version of its Aurora database this week called Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized. The big news from this version is that it gets rid of all I/O charges ...

This includes the ability to run six relational database engines with Amazon RDS (including Amazon Aurora, a fully MySQL/PostgreSQL compatible database engine with at least as strong durability ...

The Relational Database Service from AWS can help streamline a host of cloud storage operations, but maintaining security requires some attention on the part of the user. Here are some best ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched AWS Aurora – a MySQL-compatible database engine for its relational database service, billed by analysts as a “database game-changer” – at its re:Invent ...

But going cloud-native impacts more than just the storage engine. In Aurora, Amazon has changed the way it performs database writes, ACID support, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.

AWS announced a new version of the Amazon Aurora database today that strips out all I/O operations costs, which could result in big savings.