I use MySQL Aurora quite heavily and, for our purposes(very high usage, but simple query pattern) there's no obvious differences outside of one major annoyance.

I use MySQL Aurora quite heavily and, for our purposes(very high usage, but simple query pattern) there's no obvious differences outside of one major annoyance. The engineers at Plaid wrote a really useful article on the differences: https://plaid.com/blog/exploring-performance-differences-between-amazon-aurora-and-vanilla-mysql/ https://plaid.com/blog/exploring-performance-differences-bet... The biggest, for me, is that Aurora clusters use shared storage and therefore the isolation model is slightly different(plus other ramifications), read committed is only possible by setting a cluster wide parameter and read uncommitted is not possible, as far as I can tell.