Amazon Web Services announces availability of Amazon Aurora in Asia Pacific (Singapore) region

SINGAPORE – March
19, 2018– Amazon Web Services
Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company announced the availability of Amazon Aurora
in the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) region.  Amazon Aurora is a MySQL
and PostgreSQL compatible database engine for Amazon Relational Database
Service (Amazon RDS) that  combines the speed and availability of
high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of
open source databases.

Amazon Aurora provides up to five times better
performance than the typical MySQL and is three times faster than standard
PostgreSQL databases, with availability as good or better than commercial
databases or high-end SANs, superior scalability and security. With no upfront
costs or commitments required, customers pay a simple hourly charge for each
Amazon Aurora database instance they use and Amazon Aurora can automatically
scale storage capacity with no downtime or performance degradation.

“Historically, customers have had to choose
between performance and price when evaluating database solutions. Our customers
have consistently told us that they wished for an easier way to get the
performance of commercial databases, at the price of open source engines,” said
Nick Walton, Managing Director, ASEAN, AWS. “Amazon Aurora is a database engine
that gives customers the best of both worlds – the performance and availability
of the highest-grade commercial databases at a cost more commonly associated
with open source.”

Highly durable and available, Amazon Aurora
automatically replicates data across multiple Availability Zones and
continuously backs up data to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), which
is designed for 99.999999999 percent durability without performance impact.
Amazon Aurora is designed to offer greater than 99.99 percent availability, and
to automatically detect and recover from most database failures in less than 60
seconds, without crash recovery or the need to rebuild database caches. Amazon
Aurora continually monitors instance health and if there is a failure, it will
automatically failover to a read replica without loss of data.

Amazon Aurora delivers
these dramatic increases over MySQL and PostgreSQL performance and availability
by tightly integrating the database engine with an SSD-backed virtualized
storage layer purpose-built for database workloads, reducing writes to the
storage system, minimizing lock contention, and eliminating delays created by
database process threads. Amazon Aurora storage is fault-tolerant,
transparently tolerating the loss of disks and Availability Zones, and
self-healing, automatically monitoring and repairing bad blocks and disks. In
addition, Amazon Aurora storage scales automatically, growing and rebalancing
Input/Outputs (I/O) across the fleet to provide consistent performance without
over-provisioning. For example, a customer can start with a database of 10GB
and have it automatically grow up to 64TB, without requiring any availability
disruptions to resize or restripe data.

Customers in Southeast Asia welcomed the
availability of Amazon Aurora in the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) region.
Founded in 1958 with 42 branches in the Philippines, Standard Insurance
provides motorcar and property insurance in the Philippines.  “Now, we can
quickly move MySQL to Amazon Aurora, and migrate the rest of our databases
later. The compatibility advantage of Aurora with MySQL will allow us to
migrate and be online at an accelerated pace, as there will be no changes
required on our MySQL-based applications,” said Kenneth Pinpin, Chief
Technology Officer, Standard Insurance.

VietJet Air, an international airline
based in Vietnam, currently runs their mobile website and applications on AWS
Cloud.  “We have been exploring Amazon Aurora as an option to migrate
our legacy databases. We are thrilled it’s finally available in the AWS Asia
Pacific (Singapore) region,” said Khanh Ho, Head of Innovation at VietJet
Aviation.

Amazon Partner Network
(APN) Partners across Asia Pacific also welcomed the availability of Amazon
Aurora in Southeast Asia. The APN includes tens of thousands of independent
software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs) around the world, with
APN Partner participation in Asia growing significantly during the past 12
months. APN Partners build innovative solutions and services on the AWS Cloud.
The APN network provides partners with business, technical, marketing, and
go-to-market (GTM) support.

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