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> but it would be awesome to see a PostgreSQL compatible frontend Why not just use PostgreSQL directly?

• jordanthoms 11y ago
  Aurora has a bunch of nice features WRT automatic failover, redundancy, and automatically scaling storage as you push more data into the DB.
  • josh2600 11y ago
    Does Aurora do anything other than detect a heartbeat failure, shoot the node in the head and bring it up on another box WRT failover?
    • awgupta 11y ago
      That is the basic idea on such things, though distributed protocols become complex when you have to consider split-brain, multiple concurrent failures, etc which all can occur in large-scale events. Aurora leverages Amazon RDS Multi-AZ in this area. Their implementation has been battle-tested over many years and many many db instances.
• brightball 11y ago
  I'm really wondering if something very close will be possible soon with AWS EFS.