Amazon spent several years building Amazon Aurora, a managed MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible database with durability and availability equal to or better than commercial engines at one-tenth the cost.
Mostly true True in substance, wrong in a detail.
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What would count as true or false
Judged as of 2019-04-11. True: Aurora was developed by AWS over several years (it was announced in 2014, with development before that); it is a fully managed database compatible with both MySQL and PostgreSQL; and AWS documentation as of then claims durability and availability matching or exceeding commercial databases at about one-tenth of their cost. Mostly true: all of this holds, with a minor slip, e.g. the development time was shorter than 'several years' or the cost comparison is stated slightly differently (such as 'one-tenth' applying only to some configurations). Mixed: some substantive parts hold and others do not (e.g., PostgreSQL compatibility was not available, or the cost claim is unsupported). Mostly false: most of the specifics are wrong or overstated. False: Aurora was not built by Amazon, or it lacks the stated compatibility. The cost and durability figures may be judged against AWS's own published claims, since the claim asserts Amazon's comparison.
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Evidence (4)
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E1 Amazon Web Services Announces Amazon Aurora Amazon Web Services, Inc. · 12 November 2014 Own record
“Amazon Aurora provides up to five times better performance than the typical MySQL database, availability as good or better than commercial databases or high-end SANs, superior scalability and security – all at one-tenth the cost of high-end commercial database offerings.”
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E2 Amazon Web Services Announces Amazon Aurora Amazon Web Services, Inc. · 12 November 2014 Own record
“We've spent the last three years working on a MySQL-compatible database that innovates on the engine and storage layers to deliver five times the performance of MySQL at one-tenth the price of commercial database solutions.”
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E3 Amazon Aurora ascendant: How we designed a cloud-native relational database All Things Distributed · 13 March 2019 Own record
“Leaders in every industry—like Capital One, Dow Jones, Netflix, and Verizon—are migrating their relational database workloads to Aurora, including MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible editions.”
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E4 Amazon Aurora ascendant: How we designed a cloud-native relational database All Things Distributed · 13 March 2019 Own record
“Customers love this because Aurora provides the performance and availability of commercial grade databases at 1/10th the cost.”
Reasoning
AWS's 2014 launch press release says the company had spent three years building a MySQL-compatible database (E4), which supports the "several years" of development. The same release claims availability as good as or better than commercial databases at one-tenth the cost of high-end commercial offerings (E3). In March 2019, before the judging date, a post on All Things Distributed, a source not independent of the subject, described MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible editions of Aurora and repeated the claim of commercial-grade performance and availability at 1/10th the cost (E5, E6). The evidence does not address durability or the "fully managed" description, and all sources come from Amazon itself, which the criteria allow for the cost and availability comparison. So the claim is mostly true.
Cite this claim
Jeff Bezos, “Amazon spent several years building Amazon Aurora, a managed MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible database with durability and availability equal to or better than commercial engines at one-tenth the cost.” (said 11 April 2019). Verdict: mostly true. Reliability API, claim c_1e2825a54bad, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_1e2825a54bad
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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