Aurora MySQL
8x8
"Amazon Aurora allowed me to do something innovative. We didn't have to wait for infrastructure to be procured and provisioned, and we didn't have to free up DBAs."
Lance Johnson, Director of Engineering Cloud R&D - 8X8
Alert Logic
"It's a very rapid process from "let's do it," to the proof of concept, to getting it done on Amazon Aurora. We have one DBA working on it and another person helping him, and we expect to have a production workload running at scale in under two months."
Paul Fisher, Chief Architect - Alert Logic
Agora
"We provide developers with simple, flexible, and powerful APIs to embed real-time voice, video, interactive streaming, chat, and AI capabilities into applications. We created the Conversational AI Engine—a solution that makes human-like conversations with AI possible. Our SD-RTN™ (Software Defined Real-Time Network) has network nodes covering over 200 countries and regions globally. Amazon Aurora attracts us with its high performance, innovative features, and advanced architecture. Using Aurora Global Database with Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition we have achieved 99.99% service availability through multi-Region deployment, with user login success rates exceeding 99%. In addition, using Aurora Global Database we have implemented proximity-based routing and service delivery for users located in different countries and achieved reduced latency. With blue/green deployments support for Aurora Global Database, we have also effectively simplified our maintenance operations to just 3 clicks for upgrades and reduced downtime to within 5 seconds."
Tony Wang, Co-founder & CRO - Agora
EPSi
"Aurora has provided operational value, speed to market, cost, and ultimately customer value. AWS constantly provides us with new innovation that you can't build internally...EPSi has done a great job using technologies like AWS to meet clients where they are and take that next step as a thought leader... The only way we can do that is with robust back-end and analytics and performance that can only be built on AWS to meet those demands."
Grant Gordon, CTO - EPSi
Akatsuki Inc.
"Amazon Aurora's fast failover capabilities and storage durability have minimized technical obstacles for our online gaming service. After launching Romancing SaGa Re;univerSe, which achieved more than 10M downloads in the first 3 weeks, Aurora's high durability brought us continuous and stable service operation without any maintenance emergencies. As the backend database for our gaming service, Aurora has provided invaluable reliability and stability."
Yuto Komai, Server Side Engineer - Akatsuki Inc.
Alfresco
"Amazon Aurora was able to satisfy all of our scale requirements with no degradation in performance. With Alfresco on Amazon Aurora we scaled to 1 billion documents with a throughput of 3 million per hour, which is 10 times faster than our MySQL environment. It just works!"
John Newton, Founder & CTO - Alfresco
Arizona State University
"ASU continues to leverage the AWS cloud as a means to improve our agility and capacity in meeting our customer needs. One such AWS service we're bullish on is Amazon Aurora. We're moving much of our on premise database workload, currently MySQL, Sybase, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server to Aurora or RDS. Aurora also plays an integral role in our data lake strategy, along with Redshift and S3, as we build out our new advanced analytic platform. Data behind our ASU Alexa skill and ASU mobile app benefits from Amazon Aurora's scalability and high performance as enormous concurrent student users during the school year creates new peak loads each season. And, we see Amazon Aurora serverless as a next step in our cloud maturity to help us improve development agility while reducing costs on infrequently used systems, to further optimize our overall infrastructure operations."
John Rome, Deputy Chief Information Officer - Arizona State University
Autodesk
"Our Account Control Management (ACM) application is a central component for many Autodesk applications, and usage has grown this year. ACM requires a high performance database with low-lag replication, automatic scaling, and MySQL compatibility. Amazon Aurora allowed us to increase our database connections and greatly improve our scalability, response times, and CPU utilization. Our customers' experience improved in a short time so we're looking into Aurora for additional applications."
Brian Mathews, Platform Engineering Vice President - Autodesk
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Beachbody
"To support the transition from DVD sales to our Beachbody on-demand streaming service, we needed a cloud service that provides agility, scalability, and high availability. Amazon Aurora provides the foundation for our digital services, supporting over a million users every month with peaks of over 250,000 users in a single day. Aurora also makes live events possible, as it allows us to scale up quickly for popular live workouts and then scale down, so we keep our costs low while our customers enjoy fast, reliable service."
Grant Leathers, Vice President, Technology Operations - Beachbody
Capital One
"At Capital One, our cloud-first approach led us to start testing the preview of Amazon Aurora's PostgreSQL compatibility in November 2016. We anticipated performance benefits, as well as the high availability and fast failover capabilities ideal for serving our customers. In our testing during the preview, we've been impressed with the performance and high availability offered by Amazon Aurora."
John Andrukonis, Chief Architect - Capital One
California Polytechnic State University
"Our Learning Management System (LMS) is central to the student experience at Cal Poly, and we have high standards for performance, scalability and high availability. Amazon Aurora meets our high standards. Given LMS usage patterns, with peaks during the first week of class, mid-terms, and finals, we expect to economize by paying only for the resources we need when we need them and eliminating the need for on-premises hardware. We also capitalize on the flexibility of the AWS environment that allows us to automatically shut down development and test instances when not in use, and spin them up quickly when needed."
Alison Robinson, Associate Vice President - Cal Poly Information Technology Services
Choice Hotels International, Inc.
"At Choice Hotels, we process millions of requests every day for guests looking to stay at our properties. Transaction volume has grown over 300 percent in the last three years, and sets new daily records every summer. To accommodate this growth, we undertook a significant challenge and developed the first new global reservation system from a hotel company in over 30 years, and built it on AWS. Leveraging Amazon Aurora and other AWS services allowed us to both exceed our performance requirements and lower our costs."
Brian Kirkland, Chief Technology Officer - Choice Hotels
The Canadian Football League (CFL)
"We migrated from Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon Aurora to take advantage of Aurora's scaling capabilities, which couldn't be better suited to meet the spikes in traffic we get during the football season while also allowing us to minimize costs. We get all of the capacity we need, but don't pointlessly run at high capacity on non-game days where our needs are much, much smaller. We also pair Aurora with Elastic Beanstalk, which lets us mirror that optimization of performance and cost on the server side, and has helped us become more productive, spending less time on DevOps and more time writing code and creating value for the league."
Sully Syed, Senior Director of Technology - Canadian Football League
Domo
"Amazon Aurora made my life easier. I was dealing with three possible system degradation alerts each night after hours, up to 15 or 20 some nights, that all had to be investigated. Now I am typically alerted once or twice a week."
Bret Bills, Director of Engineering - Domo, Inc.
Dow Jones
"Dow Jones' first legacy on-prem database to Aurora migration was a high-profile workload that plays a critical role in engaging and retaining our customers. We were an early adopter of Aurora and the AWS Database Migration Service, which we're utilizing to move data from our legacy on-prem environment to Aurora. The migration allowed us to replace a legacy platform with performance challenges that required 400k in DBA staff to manage, with $1M in licensing costs annually, to a cloud-based, highly scalable and resilient solution. It uses a 1TB Aurora cluster with 200 transactions per second, along with replication to another region for high availability and disaster recovery. By moving much of the operational overhead to AWS, and eliminating the need to manage storage completely, Aurora frees up funds for innovation."
Ramin Beheshti, Chief Product & Technology Officer - Dow Jones
DHI Group, Inc.
"AWS gave us the opportunity to build an enterprise-class, cost-effective, open source-based database strategy with Amazon Aurora. We achieved the database freedom our team needs to deliver specialized insights and relevant connections to our customers."
Brian Hostetter, Senior Director - DHI Group
Eduphoria
"We were very excited after testing our workloads on the initial Amazon Aurora beta because of its performance potential. When we moved our production systems from Amazon RDS to Aurora, we found that we were able to double the number of customers per database cluster while increasing performance at the same time. Aurora's flexibility with adding read slaves on demand as well as automatically managing all underlying storage lets our engineers focus more on customer experience and less on how to speed up data access layers."
Aaron Dulaney, Director of Infrastructure Operations - Eduphoria
FirstCry
"At FirstCry, a smooth customer experience is key for us to build trust and strong relationships with our customers. Using Amazon Aurora has helped us increase our agility, scalability, and resilience as we scale to meet our customers' needs. As our application is I/O-intensive, we were looking to eliminate variability in our I/O spend. With the adoption of the Aurora I/O-Optimized feature, we have realized 50% cost savings per month, achieving price predictability and improved price performance for our I/O heavy workloads.
Based on the great experience we have had using the fully managed service, we are migrating more of our self-managed databases to Aurora. We have also made both Aurora MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible editions core pillars of our data strategy, along with Amazon Redshift and Amazon S3. We look to further enhance our Analytics and AI/ML capabilities in the organization utilizing these services. We are very pleased with the performance that Aurora has delivered and it will continue to be a trusted service we utilize as we scale our partnership with AWS."
Sumit Kumar, Sr. Director Cloud Engineering - FirstCry
FirstFuel
"Amazon Aurora has immediately become a key component to meeting FirstFuel's uptime and disaster recovery Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with some of the world's most demanding enterprise clients. Key functionality such as restore to point in time, reader nodes, cross-region replication, and automatic node failover have dramatically reduced or eliminated our data loss and downtime risks. Aurora has also reduced the time we spend on database management, leading to real productivity improvements."
Siddharth Kundalkar, Director of Engineering - FirstFuel
Funny Or Die
"Our first tests of Aurora were difficult to believe because the performance increase was substantial. Aurora has greatly improved the responsiveness of our web site and our data warehouse analytics. After migrating to Aurora, we were able to rapidly add more read slaves to our site as needed, while maintaining great performance. Overall the performance and throughput have been excellent and Aurora's performance metrics are very detailed and helpful, simplifying database management and scalability. Aurora made our migration from traditional colocation to AWS easier because the storage was fully managed and replication was extremely fast."
Mark Smallcombe, CTO - Funny Or Die
GungHo Online Entertainment
"Amazon Aurora improves the backend database performance of our online gaming services and reduces the operational cost. For instance, Update query performance runs 8 times faster and Select query performance runs about 10 times faster on Princess Punt Sweets, a long-running gaming title from 2012. In addition, backup time was shortened by 80%, and we achieved a 40% reduction in our AWS cost by reducing the number of instances. After the migration, Aurora continues to achieve high reliability and stability as our backend database."
Satomi Sakashita, Engineer of Development Division - GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc.
HungryPanda
"We began using AWS in April 2024 and chose Aurora, a MySQL-compatible and fully managed database service, to support our core business - food delivery platform. From the initial deployment, we opted for Graviton2 (R6g) instances due to competitive pricing, 12% lower compared to Intel x86 instances. As we expanded to more countries, we started to hit the limits of our current r6g instance class. While there was always an option to scale vertically, this would almost double costs. The launch of Graviton3 (R7g) instances offered a solution. Switching to Graviton3 (R7g) instances brought significant improvements: 22% lower CPU utilization, 27% reduced latency, and fewer reader instances(5 to 4). This transition allowed us to accommodate our growing business needs while optimizing costs and performance."
Li Chong, Vice President of Technology - HungryPanda
Intuit
"Intuit recently migrated their commerce platform to Amazon Aurora MySQL to support increasing global demand. All direct purchases of Intuit's software will go through the Intuit's Commerce Platform running on Aurora, with TurboTax already live to meet traffic demands during tax season. A large portion of our workload involves low-latency, read-only access to data. An example is pricing information, which is infrequently updated but needs to be readily available for reads from coast to coast.
Aurora Global Database, with sub-second global replication, enables us to address this business requirement without performance or latency constraints. As a financial services company, we also care deeply about business continuity even in the face of large-scale events. Aurora Global Database allows us to maintain a strong disaster recovery posture by distributing data across AWS regions with failover typically taking under a minute to complete."
Krishna Vaishnav, Engineering Manager E-commerce & Cloud Platform Engineering - Intuit
ISCS
"We project that the size and throughput requirements of our relational databases will more than double year-over-year for the next several years. We need a scaling strategy that delivers reliable performance with growth, yet is simple to operate. Amazon Aurora's ability to auto-grow database sizes all the way up to 64 TB, as well as provide consistent throughput and latency, is an extremely promising approach to reducing our operational risk."
Doug Moore, CTO & VP of Consumer Experience - ISCS
Ivanti
"We're evaluating migrating our relational datastore from SQL Server to Aurora. The most important thing to us is the flexibility...whereas with SQL Server...it's very cumbersome. The goal is to introduce a modern relational data store that allows us to scale at will as our customer onboard."
Jared Neilsen, Sr. Director Cloud Ops & Devops - Ivanti
Jobvite
"We were fortunate to have had the opportunity to partner with AWS during the development/rollout of the DMS migration service to migrate from Microsoft SQL Server to Aurora MySQL. In performing this migration, Jobvite realized cost reduction of 40%, improved responsiveness to customer requests by up to 40%, eliminated monthly database maintenance that took the application down for 3 hours, and reduced refresh time from 20 hours to 2 hours. All of these benefits have allowed Jobvite to invest efforts into other aspects of the business to improve customer satisfaction."
Chaitanya Konduri, DevOps Manager - Jobvite
The Mainichi Newspapers
"We migrated all systems of the Mainichi Shimbun News website to AWS, and celebrated the first anniversary in December 2016. We use Amazon Aurora for the core database of our system, and it shows excellent performance. The database has been running with 100% availability in the last 16 months, and we spent almost no time on maintenance and administration. By having such a wonderful database service, engineers could focus on developing better applications, allowing us to provide better service to our customers. As a result, annual page views on our website increased by 20% from the previous year."
Yuzi Mori, Solutions Architect, Digital Media Division - The Mainichi Newspapers Co. Ltd
Netflix
"We were able to test Aurora's parallel query feature and the performance gains were very good. To be specific, for queries doing full table scan or fetching fat indexes with billions of rows, we noticed the query time reduced from 32 minutes to 3 minutes. We were able to reduce the instance type from r3.8xlarge to r3.2xlarge. For this use-case, parallel query was a great win for us."
Jyoti Shandil, Cloud Data Architect - Netflix
Packagecloud
"Using Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition, Packagecloud has scaled our databases to hundreds of millions of rows. Previously, performing in-place major version upgrades led to unpredictable downtime and the risk of breaking our Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to customers. Using Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments for Aurora, we were able to automate and simplify the upgrade process. With Blue/Green Deployments we were able to upgrade from MySQL version 5.6 to version 5.7 on Aurora in about two minutes. This enabled us to preserve our customer SLAs while saving developer time."
Soon Hin Khor, Chief Technical Officer - Packagecloud
Pagely
"We are excited by the flexibility that Amazon Aurora serverless offers in our current managed WordPress hosting stack, and the new serverless WordPress application hosting model that it enables us to pursue. Many of our large-scale WordPress sites have unpredictable database usage. Amazon Aurora serverless gives us the ability to lower customer costs for these fluctuating workloads and free internal resources by eliminating the need for manual or monitored database resizing. Ultimately this is about saving time, money, and serving our customers better, and Amazon Aurora serverless will help us do that."
Joshua Strebel, Founder & CEO - Pagely
PayNearMe
"At PayNearMe, we power over $50B in annual payments as a leading fintech. We identified a critical bottleneck during proactive load testing due to write concurrency limitations in our primary database cluster. As our business scaled, this constraint risked limiting our ability to serve customers during high-volume periods. With the use of the Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized configuration for our Aurora MySQL database, we resolved the write concurrency bottleneck, immediately doubling our transaction capacity — a 100% increase in throughput — while providing ample room for future growth. Beyond throughput gains, we achieved substantial performance improvements across our entire system: Average Active Sessions (AAS) and commit latency decreased by approximately 87%, and one core subsystem now runs about 50% faster, no longer constrained by write blocking. These results directly enhance our customer experience and operational efficiency. Working closely with AWS, we adopted Aurora I/O Optimized for our I/O-intensive application to address the specific write concurrency challenges we were encountering without having to rearchitect our application. With a single API call we changed the storage type of our existing Aurora database clusters to be I/O-Optimized;, the implementation was quick and straightforward, delivering immediate and measurable performance gains."
Derek Douglas-Hecker, Performance Architect - PayNearMe
Pearson
"The cloud plays a major role in Pearson's transformation into a digital education company. Using AWS, the IT team created a platform product teams use to create next-generation apps for education. AWS enables our teams to release features and update them globally at any time, lower costs to internal developer partners, transforming work with security teams, and delivering value to students. Amazon Aurora has been a core part of our AWS infrastructure to ensure we have best performance, high availability, and scalability with our increasing users."
Ian Wright, VP of Infrastructure & Operations - Pearson
Personal Capital
"Adopting Amazon Aurora is a game-changer because we offload management, security, and backup to AWS. When we managed our own databases, it could take days or even weeks to spin up a new instance, replicate data, load test, patch, and so on. With Amazon Aurora, it takes a few clicks or a few lines of script and a new instance is running in minutes. If you multiply those productivity gains across the organization, it's huge."
Fritz Robbins, Chief Technology Officer - Personal Capital
RecoChoku
"If you work with databases on AWS, there is no reason not to choose Amazon Aurora. At peak periods the membership system is accessed via API more than 250 times per second, but there have been no issues at all even under this kind of processing load. Also, because it is a fully managed service, we can focus our resources on service development."
Shuhei Sakai, Systems Architect Group, Business Systems Promotion Department - RecoChoku Co., Ltd.
S&P Dow Jones Indices
S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) has nearly 200 databases supporting its core applications, with sizes ranging from 500GB to 15TB.
"We began our migration journey with Amazon Web Services (AWS) migrating from on-premises to MySQL on Amazon EC2 and then directly to Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition, utilizing AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS). We recently adopted Aurora serverless for a new application that includes machine learning capabilities using AWS SageMaker for sector wide asset classification. Setting up AWS Glue jobs to ingest data from Twitter feeds led to a very dynamic workload for this application. Hence we adopted Aurora serverless, which can scale the compute resources dynamically to support processing all the AWS Glue jobs and AWS Lambda functions, while being able to ingest massive volumes of data. We have also enabled write forwarding to keep our application active in more than one region, with Amazon Aurora Global Database."
Shivakumar Bangalore, Sr. Director of Database Engineering - S&P Global Inc.
Shoplazza
"In 2024, we introduced Amazon Aurora serverless into our microservices architecture, to support critical workloads such as marketing, ordering, and payments. During peak periods Aurora serverless seamlessly scales capacity up and then scales down automatically after the surge. With this autoscaling configuration, we have cut costs by over 40% while also reducing manual database operations work by 50%. Aurora serverless has empowered our teams to focus less on infrastructure management and more on application innovation that drives our business forward."
Bing Xia, Cofounder & CTO - Shoplazza
ShortMax
"Our business requires real-time resource expansion without downtime to handle sudden traffic spikes. Traditional scaling methods often necessitate minutes of downtime, which is unsuitable for our needs. To address this challenge, we adopted Amazon Aurora serverless database to support our short drama platform, ShortMax, including multiple core modules such as payment and user management. Aurora serverless can scale within seconds, reducing business interruption from 10+ minutes when using traditional scaling methods to zero seconds during the expansion period. It also supports scaling capacity down to zero Aurora Capacity Units (ACUs) with no charges during periods of database inactivity. This solution allows us to efficiently manage our database resources while maintaining maximum business continuity for our 5,500,000 daily active users."
Gao Zhensheng, CTO - ShortMax
Safe Software
"With support for 325+ data formats and limitless transformations, our products' automated daily testing scenarios are demanding: 15,000 x 4 operating systems x 3 products, running 24/7. Add our developers and QA team hitting the servers, and they were tipping over. We migrated our 200 tables and 10 million rows to Aurora with the click of a button. Now we can build better, faster - which means we can deliver a higher quality product. We have no more maintenance headaches, Aurora is scalable without hassles, and we're saving 40% in annual costs."
Iain McCarthy, Product Release Manager - Safe Software
Sophos
"Amazon Aurora has become the default choice for any kind of relational data for us because of its ease of use."
John Peterson, Vice President of Engineering - Sophos
SugarCRM
"Moving to Amazon Aurora allows us to reclaim 15% of our operations team's time."
Zac Sprackett, SVP Product Management - SugarCRM
Sumo Logic
"Sumo Logic processes hundreds of petabytes of data every day. Any disruption, delay, or downtime becomes orders of magnitudes worse given that customers use our solution to deal with similar issues of their own. We migrated to Amazon Aurora for a fully-managed, highly-available, durable, MySQL-compatible, VPC-enabled database, and were able to migrate about a hundred database instances with hundreds of databases within them, with zero downtime from our customers' perspective. Our systems are now more robust and future proof, not just in terms of technology but also in terms of database management processes and readiness for future migrations."
Aditya Kelkar, Backend Engineer - Sumo Logic
Sumzap, Inc.
"The migration of Sengoku Enbu -KIZNA- from our on-premises data center to AWS was completed very successfully in February 2019. We are now using several Amazon Aurora clusters (MySQL-compatible edition), with our application servers running on Amazon EC2 instances in the same availability zone for low latency. During gaming events, when we have access peaks three times a day, we use auto-scaling and EC2 Spot for our application servers, and have found that both Aurora and EC2 handle these peaks without any issues whatsoever."
Hiroyuki Ishihara, SRE Team Manager - Sumzap, Inc.
SysAid
"At SysAid, we describe Aurora as the solution to everything! We were looking for a database that could withstand the needs of our established customer base, who need all of their historical IT data at their fingertips. Aurora allowed us to not compromise the level of service that's expected of us. Furthermore, we were looking for a stable and scalable cluster technology and were amazed by how quickly and easily Aurora performed intensive ALTER TABLE operations. We're now free to move SysAid forward without worrying about either performance or stability."
Rafi Rainshtein, Vice President of R&D - SysAid
Threat Stack
"We chose Amazon Aurora because we wanted a data store to support availability cross-region, so in the instance of a downed datacenter our customers can still authenticate."
Jennifer Kim, Lead Software Engineer - Threat Stack
Trend Micro
"We went from being a bottleneck in our customer's lifecycle to being invisible and even an enhancement in their process due to Aurora."
Steve Quane, Executive Vice President, Network Defense & Hybrid Cloud Security - Trend Micro
TalentBin
"TalentBin by Monster made the move to Aurora so as to reduce operational over-head and management of MySQL, which in turn allowed our development team to focus on innovation. Aurora offered significantly faster replication, providing larger write operations that wouldn't impact any downstream applications. Plus, Aurora's tools eliminated the need to allocate excessive storage to account for usage and growth demands, which adds even more value and savings. Aurora made it possible for our team to consolidate various databases, reducing our database instance count by roughly 40%. Other gains were earned through automatic snapshots and point-in-time restoration, providing true operational improvements. All of these features made migrating to Aurora an easy decision for us."
Travis Theune, Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - TalentBin
TransNexus
"We tested Aurora's parallel query feature with analytics applications within our ClearIP software product hosted in AWS. We've been excited to find that larger, more intensive queries perform up to 20x faster with Parallel Query turned on."
Alec Fenichel, Software Developer - TransNexus
Tuya Smart
"We selected Amazon Aurora as our core database engine for its unparalleled performance and availability at global scale. Tuya currently manages billions of real-time online devices and can keep cloud message processing response times under 10 milliseconds. However, billions online devices provide a challenge. During holidays, there will be peak traffic volume, with tens of millions of devices going online and offline virtually simultaneously. Tuya used Amazon Aurora to construct a data storage solution to solve the main problem of rapid increase in short-term traffic, and to fully utilize resources. Aurora's design, which separates compute and storage and low-latency replication functionality, improves system throughput by enhancing the effect of read-write separation. Aurora provides up to 15 read replicas, setting the groundwork for Tuya's read flexibility development. At the same time, Tuya has integrated Aurora serverless, which includes seconds-level elastic expansion and contraction, allowing Tuya to handle extremely heavy business traffic smoothly."
Eva Na, Vice President of Marketing & Strategic Cooperation and CMO - Tuya Smart
The United Nations
"At the UN, we operate multiple websites with global reach that require mission-critical reliability and consistent performance. We were able to achieve superb performance even with Amazon Aurora's smallest database engine. Amazon Aurora's new user-friendly monitoring interface made it easy to diagnose and address issues. Its performance, reliability and monitoring really shows Amazon Aurora is an enterprise-grade AWS database."
Mohamad Reza, Information Systems Officer - United Nations
Whale TV
"We use Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition for our TV operating system to achieve high performance, availability, and scalability. Using AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 R8g instances for Aurora, our testing revealed an over 40% increase in performance and, most impressively over 20% reduction in business latency over Intel predecessors. The combination of Aurora and Graviton4 instances delivers the best performance for our workloads."
Kenvin Zhou, SRE Director - Whale TV
X.D. Network
Ragnarok Online, an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) mobile game we launched in the Korea region in March 2018, needs to constantly update game statistics and player status. The burden of massive write operations can reach 25,000 queries per second easily, which exceeds the limit of traditional MySQL databases. Thanks to the Amazon Aurora database, we can accomplish this without changing any of the code, and even keep latency to less than 35 ms to ensure we can continue to expand our user base. Thanks to the high performance and availability that Amazon Aurora provides, Ragnarok Online reached number one in the free and top-grossing mobile game categories in Korea when it launched.
ZipRecruiter
"We migrated our MySQL databases to Amazon Aurora in order to handle our incredibly fast growth. Scalability and high availability can be challenging with large MySQL databases. Amazon Aurora allows us to easily scale our reads through near-zero-lag read replicas, even under a very heavy write load. That combined with reliable, out-of-the-box cross-availability zone failover means we favor Aurora for all of our live data serving needs."
Craig Ogg, Chief Technology Officer - ZipRecruiter
Zixun
"We have been using AWS since 2017 and chose Amazon Aurora, a fully MySQL-compatible managed database service, to support our core business—the Ziniao browser. AWS Graviton processors and Aurora Global Database were key factors in our decision to choose Aurora. We adopted Graviton2 (R6g) instances, achieving a 12% cost advantage compared to Intel x86 instances. As our business expanded to new regions, costs increased, and we needed to further optimize our architecture to improve cost efficiency. The launch of Aurora Graviton3 (R7g) instances provided us with a solution. After switching to R7g instances, we achieved significant improvements: nearly 50% better price-performance ratio, 25% overall performance improvement, 30% reduction in CPU utilization, and 27% latency reduction. These optimizations enabled us to achieve optimal balance between cost and performance while meeting growing business demands. Additionally, by deploying Aurora Global Database, we successfully built a cross-region disaster recovery system and effectively supported regional business expansion needs. Even when facing Region-level failures that are more severe than Availability Zone failures, we can switch our core database operations to other regions in less than 1 minute to provide continuous service, ensuring that our end-user experience is virtually unaffected.."
Wensheng Wang, CTO - Fujian Zixun
Zumba
"Our existing MySQL databases perform millions of transactions per day and we expect them to continue to grow. Amazon Aurora will give us better performance and scalability than MySQL, as well as lower latency read replicas, and we see an opportunity to use Amazon Aurora to improve the latency of our website while also reducing the number of instances required to run it. Best of all, Amazon Aurora's MySQL-compatibility means that we can use it without making changes to our existing applications."
Douglas Jarquin, Director of DevOps - Zumba
