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Scaling Secrets: 4 Reasons Amazon Aurora Outperforms Standard RDS MySQL So, you're running a database on AWS. Maybe you started with a simple RDS MySQL instance and things were going swimmingly. But now, your website's getting slammed with traffic, y...

Nov 17, 2025 · 4 min read · jayasakthi-blog.hashnode.dev  
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