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Everyone repeats that Aurora is faster than plain RDS MySQL. What is different in the architecture, and when does it pay off?

Strip the marketing and Aurora is a rewrite of the storage layer: the log is the database, committed to a quorum across three AZs. Know when that machinery pays and when it just bills.

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Strip the marketing and Aurora is a rewrite of the storage layer: the log is the database, committed to a quorum across three AZs. Know when that machinery pays and when it just bills.

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