AWS-Aurora

• It is a relational database, and closed source database engine

• It is compatible with MySQL and delivers five times throughput of it on the same hardware.

• It is also compatible with PostgreSQL and delivers 3 times throughput of it on the same hardware.

• The main features of Aurora are fault-tolerant, distributed, a self-healing storage system that auto-scales upto 64 TB per database instance.

• It provides high-performance, availability, point-in-time recovery, continuous backed up to S3, and replication across three availability zones.