35 engineers on Hacker News describe using Amazon Aurora first-hand: 10 endorse it, 5 regret it, 4 are mixed.
“I ran actual production workloads against both, and Aurora never won... I'm telling you that Aurora does not win on performance.”
regret · production · sgarland · 2025-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Their docs are not good and things frequently don't behave how you expect them to.”
regret · production · CaptainKanuk · 2025-11-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I switched her to an immutable distro (Aurora) over an year ago, and it's been flawless so far.”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · d3Xt3r · 2025-04-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've since switched her to an immutable distro (Aurora) and it's been rock solid.”
endorse · personal · d3Xt3r · 2025-03-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we have an Aurora db.r6g.large, which we've been using for a few years now... With aurora unlimited storage you might as well use that.”
endorse · production · 3 yr · mannyv · 2025-03-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've generally been happy with Aurora, but we run into gotchas every so often that don't seem to be documented anywhere”
mixed · production · deergomoo · 2024-06-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“AWS RDS Aurora also requires you to drop replication slots when performing version upgrades”
mixed · production · brentjanderson · 2023-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run around 100 RDS aurora clusters and switched to graviton... since amazon natively supports mysql on aurora we didn't have to worry about compatibility.”
endorse · production · fuzzyengineer · 2022-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've seen postgres databases on AWS Aurora serving over 13,000 transactions per second ... just fine.”
endorse · production · jdreaver · 2022-01-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Aurora wasn't the right fit for us... Our Aurora costs were through the roof, (and variable and spiky, never something you want!)”
regret · production · mijoharas · 2020-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Aurora defaults are pretty good, but in our case we had some tuning of cache settings in place before moving over and the result was terrible.”
mixed · production · phamilton · 2020-04-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“With Aurora we pay for what we use, not what we provision... Right now... we are paying less than half what we used to for IO.”
endorse · production · phamilton · 2020-04-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My company has been using serverless aurora pretty much since preview and will keep doing so for some parts of infra, but are moving some services back to provisioned.”
mixed · production · 1 yr · angerbot · 2019-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Aurora Serverless cannot scale fast enough to cater for this. Unfortunately it doesn't seem we can enable this proxy for serverless clusters.”
regret · production · PetahNZ · 2019-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Amazon came around with Arora and promised we'd never have any replication lag. We switched over. Still had replication lag.”
regret · production · onlyrealcuzzo · 2019-03-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use pools in lambdas to Amazon Aurora and it works out fine.”
endorse · production · dlhavema · 2018-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Using a scale-out system like Aurora makes it even better.”
endorse · production · manigandham · 2018-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Switching to aurora was fairly painless. And we pay less for a box that's got roughly 4x the resources, decent management tools, and no burstability limits.”
endorse · production · kareemm · 2018-01-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've switched 6 or 7 of our production databases to Aurora now. It is much faster than MySQL/Percona Server.”
endorse · production · cookiecaper · 2016-09-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Postgres 12 will no longer be supported by Aurora after February 25, 2025.”
neutral · production · mattlong · 2024-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run Amazon Aurora MySQL and Amazon is finally forcing us to upgrade to 8.0.”
neutral · production · donatj · 2024-10-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've replaced our $10k/month Aurora instances with a $200/month Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volume.”
neutral · production · b112 · 2024-04-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have a 10TB database we switched from Aurora to Postgres and it cut out bill by 80%.”
neutral · production · nusmella · 2023-08-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Aurora Postgres x 3 for now, a large ES cluster, 2x redis clusters, memcached etc.”
neutral · production · wlll · 2022-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We got rid of them when we migrated from Oracle to AWS Aurora.”
neutral · production · Shorel · 2022-07-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“my table (which lives on RDS or Aurora btw) is less of a target than Okta's users tables”
neutral · production · jaeming · 2022-07-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This is why I compromised on using Amazon Aurora for example, because it's protocol compatible with MySQL.”
neutral · production · gtsteve · 2021-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've run in both of these configurations connecting to Aurora”
neutral · production · phamilton · 2021-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The main cloud services I use at work are: 3. Aurora/A for PG DB”
neutral · production · gravypod · 2020-08-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At my current gig we use it in Prod, but we are also able to run our software during development pointing to locally installed open-source versions of MySQL just fine.”
neutral · production · vp8989 · 2020-04-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“user management is in a couple of Aurora database clusters.”
neutral · production · phamilton · 2020-04-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Aurora (with autoscaled readers) and DynamoDB (autoscaled IOPS).”
neutral · production · phamilton · 2019-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We handle ~10 million messages a day in a pubsub system quite similar in spirit to the above, running on AWS Aurora MySQL.”
neutral · production · kwindla · 2019-05-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run customer databases on AWS Aurora and can scale up to 15 low-lag read replicas.”
neutral · production · sorenbs · 2017-05-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?