Re:Hold off on AWS Aurora and Postgres until further notice
by vhold on Friday December 29, 2017 @03:58PM
(#16031949)
Aurora read replicas are just compute heads decoupled from the storage. They increase availability and read performance, but don't do anything for the reliability of the storage.
https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/faqs/
"Each 10GB chunk of your database volume is replicated six ways, across three Availability Zones."
So, if there has been a storage layer failure, most likely it was a software bug in Aurora itself.