Amazon Aurora

[bmwillrath]

Amazon recently released Amazon Aurora, This offers a 5 times speed boost to MySQL Databases.

Accordingly to Page.ly it has increased their data queries quite well.

https://pagely.com/blog/2015/08/we-benchmarked-amazons-new-aurora-database-for-use-with-wordpress-results-within/
https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/faqs/

What are your thoughts, Should we switch or offer both.

[bmwillrath]

I like the offer of both, because Aurora does not offer a free tier option at present.
I can't see any disadvantage to doing both.