we benchmarked amazon’s new aurora database for use with wordpress. results within.

At last RE Invent Amazon announced product called Aurora, which promised up to 5x performance gains on the hardware AND would act as drop-in replacement to MySQL.   Aurora is now in full production at Pagely and we'd like to share some data and thoughts on how it has improved performance for our WordPress hosting customers..   Improved AWS dashboard We have some of this in 3rd party monitoring, and it makes the day to day dashboard more useful...   Furthermore, once we moved Aurora into production we logged data from WordPress sites on MySQL RDS instances, and again once they were moved to Aurora Database production instance..   This hurts the $ cost per site served for the small % of sites we host with huge wp postmeta tables. 1-2% of sites are not compatible with Aurora because they have odd table designs or key structures in additional tables...   As the data shows there is performance gain delivered by using Aurora Database for the average WordPress site.   PHP5 was instant 20% speed bump, and PHP7 and HHVM further speed up PHP processes.   Amazon has been partner to Pagely®, allowing us to scale in every direction needed to support our Enterprise clientele.   I work on the interwebs and am CEO and co-founder of Pagely Managed WordPress Hosting company.   when this happens, your Application, say wordpress, to readonly Aurora DB thinking it's still primary.   Read more