Amazon Aurora Doubles Maximum RDBS Storage Size to 128TB

Amazon Aurora, Amazon’s finest data storage offering that serves Netflix, Verizon and the United Nations, now provides RDS clusters with up to 128 TB of storage, doubling its storage limit for both MySQL and PostgreSQL database. Previously, Aurora database instances supported 64TB of storage. The latest 128TB support is available with Aurora MySQL engine version 1.23. The AWS RDS is also compatible with MySQL 5.6, with engine version 2.09, compatible with MySQL 5.7, and with Aurora PostgreSQL 9.6.17, 10.12 and 11.7. The maker of Amazon Aurora, AWS, states that it now can help cut down your database costs by 90% or more while improving the reliability and availability of the database.

AWS has promised customers they no longer have to worry about data deletion or splitting database to scale their Cloud compute and storage requirements.

Leading Cloud Compute and Storage provider AWS announced storage expansion of its widely used MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database service. (RDBS) to meet the growing demands from its customers. Some of the leading enterprise companies use Amazon Aurora to meet the ever-growing demand for an improved IT agility, database capacity and real-time management of workload across MySQL, Sybase, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server. Companies looking to build new analytical and business intelligence suites rely on AWS Amazon Aurora to scale the performance and resilience of their data lake strategy.

In the cloud maturity journey, IT leaders find Amazon Aurora to be a key component to optimize overall infrastructure operations.

Some of the leading companies use Aurora to take advantage of AWS’s Cloud scaling and performance optimization capabilities, enabling DevOps with a fully-managed RDS architecture. Once integrated with the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Aurora completely offsets all the database management tasks such as hardware provisioning, software patching, setup, configuration, or backups. These are important factors in accelerating digital transformation built on goal-sheets of Open source-based database strategy, unlimited virtualization options, high-grade resilience, quality user / customer experience and security.

Currently, Amazon Aurora simplifies workload on the MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database. It is entirely built for the cloud, that combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases.

Leading customers who use Amazon Aurora to meet their Cloud compute and storage needs include:

• Alfresco
• Amdocs
• Autodesk
• BMC
• Barracuda
• Cognizant
• Doordash
• Domo
• NTT Docomo
• Netflix
• SugarCRM
• Sumo Logic
• Trend Micro
• United Nations

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