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AWS RDS Aurora Debate

Comments primarily question the advantages of alternative Postgres solutions over AWS RDS or Aurora Postgres, recommending AWS managed services for scalability, ease, and integration benefits.

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didip • Sep 22, 2025 • View on HN

If you are on AWS anyway, I am curious why not just use Aurora Postgres?

ric2b • Nov 30, 2018 • View on HN

Why not PostgreSQL? It's also on RDS.

BrentOzar • Jun 14, 2023 • View on HN

Or, uh, just use AWS RDS Aurora.

krembo • Oct 5, 2023 • View on HN

Or just use RDS Aurora for same benefits out of the box at scale.

2-m3m3n70 • Nov 30, 2016 • View on HN

What's the advantage to using this over RDS?

sciurus • Jan 6, 2015 • View on HN

Why should I choose this over Amazon's RDS?

coredog64 • Sep 2, 2024 • View on HN

Same with RDS on AWS (pg and MySQL both)

PartiallyTyped • Feb 9, 2024 • View on HN

AWS' Aurora seems to be handling things pretty well tbh and is meant as a drop-in replacement for Postgresql and MySQL.

ghiculescu • Jun 1, 2024 • View on HN

What makes RDS better than Aurora?

mattbillenstein • Jun 29, 2012 • View on HN

I suggest until Amazon uses RDS For their database - that you don't either...