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Aurora PostgreSQL Benefits for AFT
Performance
• Scales to
largest AFT
workloads
• Supports our
strict query
latency
requirements
• No impact
snapshot
backups
Scalability
• Now scaling
up/down takes
minutes, not
hours
• Seamless
horizontal read
scaling
Availability
• Faster
failovers
• Back to high
availability in
minutes after
hardware
failure
Hardware
management
• Provisioning
our hardware
in minutes, not
months
• Better use of
DBA team
resources
Cloud-based
automation
• AWS API/CLI
enabled
management
• CloudWatch
monitoring
• Build test
databases
from
snapshots
Cost
• No more
Oracle license
costs
