Amazon Aurora Continues its Torrid Growth, More than Doubling the Number of Active Customers in the Last Year ADP, Autodesk, Choice Hotels, TIBCO, Trend Micro, Cloudability, ZipRecruiter, BMLL Tech, Beachbody, Arizona State University, RecoChoku, FirstFuel, Mitel, and Wappa join the tens of thousands of customers using Amazon Aurora
Amazon Aurora remains the fastest growing service in the history of AWS
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 4, 2018-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), shared that tens of thousands of customers are using Amazon Aurora for their relational databases, a number that has increased by approximately two-and-a-half times in the last year. The Amazon Aurora service, which is MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible, is the fastest growing service in the history of AWS, delivering the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases at one-tenth of the cost. New Amazon Aurora customers include ADP, Autodesk, Choice Hotels, TIBCO, Trend Micro, Cloudability, ZipRecruiter, BMLL Tech, Beachbody, Arizona State University, RecoChoku, FirstFuel, Mitel, and Wappa. They join existing Amazon Aurora customers including Verizon, Capital One, GE, Dow Jones, Netflix, Nielsen, Airbnb, Expedia, NASDAQ, and Pearson.
Historically, customers have had to choose between performance and price when evaluating database solutions, said Raju Gulabani, Vice President, Database, Analytics, and Machine Learning, at AWS. Customers no longer have to make that choice because Amazon Aurora offers them the best of both worlds. Also, instead of focusing on auditing, fining, or raising prices on customers, as older guard commercial database providers tend to do, we continue to focus on rapidly iterating and introducing new capabilities for Amazon Aurora such as Aurora Serverless, which extends the concept of serverless computing to the relational database, and Aurora Multi-Master, which scales database write operations across multiple data centers for even higher scale and availability. These and other new features are designed to support the most critical enterprise workloads while simultaneously driving down our customers' database costs.
ADP, Autodesk, Choice Hotels, TIBCO, Trend Micro, Cloudability, ZipRecruiter, BMLL Tech, Beachbody, Arizona State University, RecoChoku, FirstFuel, Mitel, and Wappa are just a few of the customers using Amazon Aurora today for the uptime and durability they need to run their organizations.
Autodesk makes software for people who make things like high-performance cars, towering skyscrapers and great films. Our Account Control Management (ACM) application is a central component for many Autodesk applications, and usage has grown this year, said Brian Mathews, Platform Engineering Vice President, Autodesk. ACM requires a high performance database with low-lag replication, automatic scaling, and MySQL compatibility. Amazon Aurora allowed us to increase our database connections and greatly improve our scalability, response times, and CPU utilization. Our customers' experience improved in a short time so we're looking into Aurora for additional applications.
Choice Hotels International, Inc. is one of the worlds largest hotel companies, with over 6,800 hotels franchised in more than 40 countries and territories. At Choice Hotels, we process millions of requests every day for guests looking to stay at our properties, said Brian Kirkland, Chief Technology Officer, Choice Hotels. Transaction volume has grown over 300 percent in the last three years, and sets new daily records every summer. To accommodate this growth, we undertook a significant challenge and developed the first new global reservation system from a hotel company in over 30 years, and built it on AWS. Leveraging Amazon Aurora and other AWS services allowed us to both exceed our performance requirements and lower our costs.
TIBCO is a global leader in integration, API management, and analytics, offering a low-code application platform that empowers citizen developers to build fully functional and smart applications in minutes. We are an early adopter of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and used the AWS Database Migration Service to transition TIBCO Cloud Live Apps to Amazon Aurora seamlessly, while it was in production, without our customers noticing any interruption in our service, said Matt Quinn, Chief Operating Officer at TIBCO. Amazon Auroras reliability, security, and fast failover will continue to help us scale Live Apps, giving customers constant access to our service so they can build and run apps quickly and with high availability.
Cloudability is a cloud cost-management platform that empowers enterprises to optimize their cloud financials with full accountability. Amazon Aurora has become the database of choice for all our MySQL workloads, said Matt Finlayson, Vice President of Engineering, Cloudability. Our True Cost Engine delivers cost efficiency to customers, using a new predictive model based on petabytes of customer cost optimization data. To support this kind of analysis, we need a database that is performant, scalable, cost-effective, and easy to maintain and tune. Aurora solves our biggest issues with managing large, production databases with strict SLAs. Now that PostgreSQL is supported, we expect all our PostgreSQL workloads to move to Aurora as well.
ZipRecruiter, the fastest-growing online employment marketplace, has connected over 1 million businesses and 100 million job seekers through AI-driven matching technology. We migrated our MySQL databases to Amazon Aurora in order to handle our incredibly fast growth, said Craig Ogg, Chief Technology Officer, ZipRecruiter. Scalability and high availability can be challenging with large MySQL databases. Amazon Aurora allows us to easily scale our reads through
