> But here in the paper, it compares Aurora to a MySQL synchronous mirroring setup, which is really unfair, IMO. Why the active primary has to replicate everyth

> But here in the paper, it compares Aurora to a MySQL synchronous mirroring setup, which is really unfair, IMO. Why the active primary has to replicate everything over the wire to the active standby? Doesn't MySQL's replication support Statement-Based Replication? The comparison in the paper is against the synchronous-mirroring pattern underlying RDS Multi-AZ [1], which is the existing fully-managed, high-availability MySQL solution Amazon offers, so the direct comparison is appropriate for existing RDS Multi-AZ users considering a migration to Aurora. [1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/amazon-rds-under-the-hood-multi-az/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/amazon-rds-under-the-h...