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Cristhian H.

Currently the majority of SQL services that we administer are in Aurora due to its multiple features:
Rapid implementation, easy documentation, fast migration, clean costs, and serverless aurora is amazing for our team.

Quote amazon:

"Amazon Aurora is designed to automatically detect database crashes and restart without the need for crash recovery or to rebuild the database cache. If the entire instance fails, Amazon Aurora will automatically fail over to one of up to 15 read replicas.": aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/details/...

In our case, the cost represented by aurora is up to 30% less than what it cost us to handle instances in RDS directly with Postgres.