> That's an indication to me that Aurora isn't fundamentally broken in some way, making a 1000x claim quite extraordinary. This isn't the open source MySQL bei

> That's an indication to me that Aurora isn't fundamentally broken in some way, making a 1000x claim quite extraordinary. This isn't the open source MySQL being compared. MySQL Heatwave is an in-memory analytics cluster that works as a MySQL plugin. It's cloud only. In a way it's similar to AlloyDB from GCP, which has similar style claims (maybe not 1000x)