If you're careful and you know what you're doing, sure. A much more impressive speed boost is to not use Aurora. "Let us separate storage and compute with a min

If you're careful and you know what you're doing, sure. A much more impressive speed boost is to not use Aurora. "Let us separate storage and compute with a minimum latency of 1 msec," said no sane person ever. Go spin up vanilla Postgres on an i4i instance, or even your personal computer, assuming you have a fast NVMe drive. You'll see what fast is. Nothing comes remotely close, not even io2 Block Express. A modern enterprise NVMe drive can do over 1,000,000 IOPS.