How to: RDS Aurora PostgreSQL Basics
- Amazon’s proprietary fork of PostgreSQL, intended to scale up for high concurrency workloads while maintaining ease of use. Currently based on PostgreSQL 9.6.
- Higher throughput (up to 3x with similar hardware).
- Automatic storage scale in 10GB increments up to 64TB.
- Low latency read replicas that share the storage layer with the master which significantly reduces replica lag.
- Point in time recovery.
- Fast database snapshots.

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