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Re:Amazon Aurora Now Available by jordanthoms on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @02:58AM (#9959921)
Aurora has a bunch of nice features WRT automatic failover, redundancy, and automatically scaling storage as you push more data into the DB.
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Re:Amazon Aurora Now Available by josh2600 on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @03:25PM (#9963912)
Does Aurora do anything other than detect a heartbeat failure, shoot the node in the head and bring it up on another box WRT failover?
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Re:Amazon Aurora Now Available by awgupta on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @01:13AM (#9966360)
That is the basic idea on such things, though distributed protocols become complex when you have to consider split-brain, multiple concurrent failures, etc which all can occur in large-scale events.

Aurora leverages Amazon RDS Multi-AZ in this area. Their implementation has been battle-tested over many years and many many db instances.

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