Regarded as the fastest-growing service in the history of AWS...
Source: fortune.com/2016/11/22/amazon-cloud-conference/
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I agree. Aurora is not a threat to Oracle yet. The "cloud" is killing Oracle.
Aurora and Red Shift are expensive and not very good. Oracle cloud is not very good at all. Oracle is killed in SaaS by Workday and Salesforce. They are killed in PaaS by MSFT and AWS. They are killed in IaaS by AWS and MSFT. AWS and MSFT rule IaaS. Oracle is too late to the party and will never compete.
Compare market shares and revenues, oracle's doesn't register in comparison to AWS
It also has major performance issues, so let's see what happens here...
Homegrown? It's like you adopt a 19 year old "kid", change his name and call it homegrown.
Mysql 1st release - 1995;
Aurora 1st release (a closed Mysql fork) - 2014.
Not a threat at all as there is 1000 other options, we still do well.
The challenge is that the trend is 'cloud' and 'cheap' - so, really, this is a mega trend while Aurora is just another dot in a sea of competitors...