“MySQL 5.6 was 8% faster than Aurora – The new database didn’t provide the best results on this test, and far off from the 5x promise we’re used to hear from Amazon. Perhaps the biggest differences kick in on different setups with bigger DB sizes, but this just comes to show us the importance of tryi…”— Alex Zhitnitsky, blog.takipi.comTagged: Ops, MYSQL, AWS