Funny Or Die is an Emmy-winning leader in comedy entertainment, combining Hollywood artistry with Silicon Valley innovation to deliver cutting-edge content across a rapidly expanding distribution network. “Our first tests of Aurora were difficult to believe because the performance increase was substantial. Aurora has greatly improved the responsiveness of our web site and our data warehouse analytics. After migrating to Aurora, we were able to rapidly add more read slaves to our site as needed, while maintaining great performance. Overall the performance and throughput have been excellent and Aurora's performance metrics are very detailed and helpful, simplifying database management and scalability. Aurora made our migration from traditional colocation to AWS easier because the storage was fully managed and replication was extremely fast.“ - Mark Smallcombe, CTO, Funny or Die
"TalentBin by Monster made the move to Aurora so as to reduce operational over-head and management of MySQL, which in turn allowed our development team to focus on innovation. Aurora offered significantly faster replication, providing larger write operations that wouldn't impact any downstream applications. Plus, Aurora’s tools eliminated the need to allocate excessive storage to account for usage and growth demands, which adds even more value and savings. Aurora made it possible for our team to consolidate various databases, reducing our database instance count by roughly 40%. Other gains were earned through automatic snapshots and point-in-time restoration, providing true operational improvements. All of these features made migrating to Aurora an easy decision for us." - Travis Theune, Sr. Site Reliability Engineer
Safe Software is a leader in spatial data transformation technology, and maker of FME. “With support for 325+ data formats and limitless transformations, our products’ automated daily testing scenarios are demanding: 15,000 x 4 operating systems x 3 products, running 24/7. Add our developers and QA team hitting the servers, and they were tipping over. We migrated our 200 tables and 10 million rows to Aurora with the click of a button. Now we can build better, faster — which means we can deliver a higher quality product. We have no more maintenance headaches, Aurora is scalable without hassles, and we’re saving 40% in annual costs.” - Iain McCarthy, Product Release Manager, Safe Software
Alfresco provides modern content management software built on opens standards that unlocks the power of business-critical content. "Amazon Aurora was able to satisfy all of our scale requirements with no degradation in performance. With Alfresco on Amazon Aurora we scaled to 1 billion documents with a throughput of 3 million per hour, which is 10 times faster than our MySQL environment. It just works!" - John Newton, Founder and CTO of Alfresco
Earth Networks operates the world’s largest and most comprehensive weather observation, lightning detection, and climate (GHG) networks. “At Earth Networks we are leveraging our big data smarts to deliver on the promise of IoT and home energy efficiency. Our proprietary networks process over 25 terabytes of real-time data daily, so we need a scalable database that can rapidly grow with our expanding data analysis. During our Amazon Aurora preview, we were very impressed with how easy it was to move from our current SQL Server databases to Amazon Aurora; all with only a few changes." - Eddie Dingels, Lead Architect at Earth Networks
ISCS is a leading provider of core system SaaS solutions for the property and casualty insurance industry. “We project that the size and throughput requirements of our relational databases will more than double year-over-year for the next several years. We need a scaling strategy that delivers reliable performance with growth, yet is simple to operate. Amazon Aurora’s ability to auto-grow database sizes all the way up to 64 TB, as well as provide consistent throughput and latency, is an extremely promising approach to reducing our operational risk." - Doug Moore, CTO & VP of Consumer Experience at ISCS
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization, consisting of 193 member states, dedicated to promoting international cooperation on the issues of peace and security, human rights, and sustainable development. “At the UN, we operate multiple websites with global reach that require mission-critical reliability and consistent performance. We were able to achieve superb performance even with Amazon Aurora’s smallest database engine. Amazon Aurora’s new user-friendly monitoring interface made it easy to diagnose and address issues. Its performance, reliability and monitoring really shows Amazon Aurora is an enterprise-grade AWS database.” – Mohamad Reza, Information Systems Officer at United Nations
WeTransfer is a leading file sharing service, providing a uniquely creative space for people to share files. "At WeTransfer, we currently use Amazon RDS for MySQL to perform millions of transactions per day serving over 70 million worldwide users. As these numbers continue to accelerate, we will need to find an even more robust data platform. In the Amazon Aurora preview, we have been impressed with Amazon Aurora’s performance, reliability, and manageability and look forward to using it for our production workloads in the future.” - Dave Forsey, CTO at WeTransfer
Zumba is a dance fitness program taken daily by over 15 million people around the world. "Our existing MySQL databases perform millions of transactions per day and we expect them to continue to grow. Amazon Aurora will give us better performance and scalability than MySQL, as well as lower latency read replicas, and we see an opportunity to use Amazon Aurora to improve the latency of our website while also reducing the number of instances required to run it. Best of all, Amazon Aurora’s MySQL-compatibility means that we can use it without making changes to our existing applications." - Douglas Jarquin, Director of DevOps at Zumba
