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Question: What is your opinion on Aurora - come comment here on CrowdChat on the record.

Crowd Captain
It's an oracle killer says #thirdwave crowd chat geeks

JP Morgenthal
AWS has offered DBaaS for awhile now and yet I still see most client deploying their own instances. I believe users are concerned about lock-in to AWS services still

John Furrier
6 million inserts per min - FAST says Bloomberg journalist Jack Clarke https://twitter.com/...

mappingbabel
Amazon Aurora can do 6 million inserts per minute & 30 million selects per minute. That is very, very fast. #reinvent
Quoted By @furrier

JP Morgenthal
I believe #Aurora addresses a need and its users will build their solution around its capabilities versus general consumption. AWS Enterprise sales team may drive greater use

JP Morgenthal
Used to be that the applications that required this level of transactional performance were in industries that are skeptical of public cloud (e.g. financial services & transportation). What new apps require this level of performance?

John Furrier
@jpmorgenthal It's only relational so I'm not sure how to store "the data exhaust"

Crowd Captain
It's MySQL-compatible database engine for Amazon RDS that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases says AWS

Crowd Captain
here is the link that they are previewing today http://aws.amazon.co...

Jeff Frick
Are people going to ask for an on-prem version?

Andy Jenks
I think that composite apps are requiring a solution like this to match with big NOSQL and you've got a killer low cost solution.