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2 self-hosted Amazon Aurora alternatives

Managed relational database service in Amazon RDS compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL. Provides distributed storage, high performance and scalability, automated backups, replication and failover, plus features like serverless, Global DB and read scaling for high availability.

Alternatives to Amazon Aurora

PostgreSQL is an advanced open source object-relational database with strong SQL compliance, ACID transactions, extensibility, and robust indexing and replication options.

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MySQL is an open source relational database for SQL-based transactional and analytical workloads, supporting replication, high availability, and clustering options.

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What replacing Amazon Aurora actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 2 of 2 shipped a commit in the last six months. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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