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Aurora - New MySQL-Compatible Database Engine

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Re: Aurora - New MySQL-Compatible Database Engine

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Has anyone been able to find specific pricing on this? All of the language I've seen about it has been vague. One of the things that's kept me from using RDS for toy projects is that it basically amounts to running another instance on top of what I already have. For a "real" project, that's a drop in the bucket, but for toys and prototypes, it can be a significant chunk of the cost (so I usually end up just running my own db on the same instance as the web server for those projects).

Re: Aurora - New MySQL-Compatible Database Engine

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Has anyone been able to find specific pricing on this? All of the language I've seen about it has been vague. One of the things that's kept me from using RDS for toy projects is that it basically amounts to running another instance on top of what I already have. For a "real" project, that's a drop in the bucket, but for toys and prototypes, it can be a significant chunk of the cost (so I usually end up just running m…

During the keynote they said that Aurora starts at $0.29 per hour (that's about $200 per month).

Re: Aurora - New MySQL-Compatible Database Engine

#17

What is the use of a cloud relational database service? I thought everybody is going for Document Based databases.

If your data is fundamentally relational you're better off putting it into a relational DB. http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2013/11/11/why-you-should-never...

Re: Aurora - New MySQL-Compatible Database Engine

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Has anyone been able to find specific pricing on this? All of the language I've seen about it has been vague. One of the things that's kept me from using RDS for toy projects is that it basically amounts to running another instance on top of what I already have. For a "real" project, that's a drop in the bucket, but for toys and prototypes, it can be a significant chunk of the cost (so I usually end up just running m…

During the keynote they said that Aurora starts at $0.29 per hour (that's about $200 per month).

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Re: Aurora - New MySQL-Compatible Database Engine

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4 times faster than MySQL on the same platform, how did they pull that off?

Here is what they claim in the FAQ:

"Amazon Aurora delivers significant increases over MySQL performance by tightly integrating the database engine with an SSD-based virtualized storage layer purpose-built for database workloads, reducing writes to the storage system, minimizing lock contention and eliminating delays created by database process threads. Our tests with SysBench show that Amazon Aurora delivers over 500,000 SELECTs/sec and 100,000 updates/sec, five times higher than MySQL running the same benchmark on the same hardware."

Re: Aurora - New MySQL-Compatible Database Engine

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Has anyone been able to find specific pricing on this? All of the language I've seen about it has been vague. One of the things that's kept me from using RDS for toy projects is that it basically amounts to running another instance on top of what I already have. For a "real" project, that's a drop in the bucket, but for toys and prototypes, it can be a significant chunk of the cost (so I usually end up just running m…

Pricing is at http://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/pricing/

The cheapest is a db.r3.large for $0.29 / hr

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