I see. I haven’t used Aurora, but have had experience running write heavy workloads on RDS. EBS failures would regularly (like monthly) cause our write latency

I see. I haven’t used Aurora, but have had experience running write heavy workloads on RDS. EBS failures would regularly (like monthly) cause our write latency to spike up 3-5x. If Aurora’s storage layer architecture is more resilient to those types of problems, that seems like a huge win.