Amazon Aurora magic is in storage is the case at large extent because RDS was done on the EBS storage which is super inefficient for database workloads. If you

Amazon Aurora magic is in storage is the case at large extent because RDS was done on the EBS storage which is super inefficient for database workloads. If you use NVMe storage you often get much better performance... and when you can use Database Level replication for high availability https://www.percona.com/blog/2017/11/28/best-practices-percona-xtradb-cluster-aws/ https://www.percona.com/blog/2017/11/28/best-practices-perco... But even if you use EBS the Magic of RocksDB/MyRocks may be better than magic of optimized storage as this blog post shows https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/07/17/assessing-mysql-performance-amongst-aws-options-part-one/ https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/07/17/assessing-mysql-perf...