> I only wish that every new feature didn't inevitably come with the caveat that it's only for the MySQL flavour of Aurora. Not only MySQL, but only MySQL vers

> I only wish that every new feature didn't inevitably come with the caveat that it's only for the MySQL flavour of Aurora. Not only MySQL, but only MySQL version 5.6, which was released in 2013 and superceded by 5.7 in 2015. Aurora finally released support for 5.7 in February this year after years of development, but all new features so far have been stuck on the 5.6 branch which hasn't been very reassuring.