Which is the latest version of Aurora MySQL?

Aurora MySQL 2.09.0 is generally available. Aurora MySQL 2.x versions are compatible with MySQL 5.7 and Aurora MySQL 1.x versions are compatible with MySQL 5.6.

What does high availability mean for Amazon Aurora?

The Aurora architecture involves separation of storage and compute. Aurora includes some high availability features that apply to the data in your DB cluster. The data remains safe even if some or all of the DB instances in the cluster become unavailable. Other high availability features apply to the DB instances.

Can a Amazon Aurora cluster be replicated to another AZ?

If your cluster uses Aurora Serverless, Aurora automatically creates a new DB instance in another AZ. However, this process involves a host replacement and thus takes longer than a failover. Amazon Aurora also supports replication with an external MySQL database, or an RDS MySQL DB instance.

What’s the storage limit for Amazon Aurora MySQL?

With this release, you can create Amazon Aurora MySQL database instances with up to 128 tebibytes (TiB) of storage. The new storage limit is an increase from the prior 64 TiB. The 128 TiB storage size supports larger databases. This capability is not supported on small instances sizes (db.t2 or db.t3).

Aurora MySQL 2.09.0 is generally available. Aurora MySQL 2.x versions are compatible with MySQL 5.7 and Aurora MySQL 1.x versions are compatible with MySQL 5.6.

How to create a cluster with Aurora MySQL?

To create a cluster with an older version of Aurora MySQL, specify the engine version through the AWS Management Console, the AWS CLI, or the RDS API. If you have any questions or concerns, AWS Support is available on the community forums and through AWS Premium Support.