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Amazon Aurora vs Snowflake

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Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database service built for the cloud, offered as part of Amazon Web Services. It provides up to five times the throughput of standard MySQL and three times that of PostgreSQL with automatic scaling, replication, and backup.

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Snowflake

Snowflake Cloud data warehouse with separated storage and compute for analytics, data sharing, and ML workloads.

Quick Facts

Amazon Aurora

CompanyAmazon Web Services
Year Launched2015
Pricing ModelPaid
Open SourceNo
CategoryDatabases
PlatformsWeb

Snowflake

CompanySnowflake
Year Launched2014
Pricing ModelPaid
Open SourceNo
CategoryDatabases
PlatformsmacOS, Windows, Web

Pricing

Amazon Aurora

Paid

Pay-As-You-Go: Usage-based/monthly

Snowflake

Paid

Standard: Custom/monthly per seat

Enterprise: Custom/annual per seat

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