Amazon RDS Aurora vs RDS MySQL vs MySQL on EC2?

Question

I\'ve been looking around for best practices when setting up your database on the cloud but it still isn\'t clear to me which of the following solutions should we be going for?<

Answer 1

I don't use Aurora personally, but I can HIGHLY recommend RDS over running your own on EC2. Having the failover happen automatically and also the backups is just worth every penny. Especially since RDS isn't that much more expensive.

Aurara looks really good on paper, but the more flexible choice of instances has kept me at PostGreSQL until now. We're looking at migrating to Aurora though, mainly because of the autoscaling storage provisioning and the higher performance.