The document provides an overview of Amazon Aurora, a managed relational database service from AWS. Some key points:
- Aurora is optimized for high performance and availability and is compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL. It uses a distributed, fault-tolerant storage system and automatically handles administrative tasks.
- Aurora leverages other AWS services like Lambda, S3, IAM and CloudWatch. Its scale-out architecture provides high throughput and its asynchronous replication enables quick failover.
- Performance monitoring tools like Performance Insights help users analyze database load and identify bottlenecks. Recent innovations improve availability further with features like zero downtime patching and database cloning.