> There's an abundance of benchmarks showing Aurora is better in terms of performance but they leave out so much about their RDS config that I'm having a hard t

> There's an abundance of benchmarks showing Aurora is better in terms of performance but they leave out so much about their RDS config that I'm having a hard time believing them. Do you have a problem believing these claims on equivalent hardware?: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~yxy/cs764-f20/papers/aurora-sigmod-17.pdf https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~yxy/cs764-f20/papers/aurora-sigmo... Or do your own performance assessments, following the published document and templates available so you can find the facts on your own? For Aurora MySql: "Amazon Aurora Performance Assessment Technical Guide" - https://d1.awsstatic.com/product-marketing/Aurora/RDS_Aurora_Performance_Assessment_Benchmarking_v1-2.pdf https://d1.awsstatic.com/product-marketing/Aurora/RDS_Aurora... For Aurora Postgres: "...Steps to benchmark the performance of the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora using the pgbench and sysbench benchmarking tools..." - https://d1.awsstatic.com/product-marketing/Aurora/RDS_Aurora_PostgreSQL_Performance_Assessment_Benchmarking_V1-0.pdf https://d1.awsstatic.com/product-marketing/Aurora/RDS_Aurora... "Automate benchmark tests for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL" - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/automate-benchmark-tests-for-amazon-aurora-postgresql/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/automate-benchmark-tes... "Benchmarking Amazon Aurora Limitless with pgbench" - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/benchmarking-amazon-aurora-limitless-with-pgbench/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/benchmarking-amazon-au...