AWS service detail

Amazon Aurora

Database

High performance managed relational database engine

DatabaseProduction guidance

Production use

Use for durable production data stores, caches, search stores, and relational or NoSQL persistence.

Before production

  • Enable backups/PITR
  • Multi-AZ where available
  • encryption
  • migrations
  • connection pooling
  • monitoring
  • capacity planning
  • restore drills.