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		LeonD on Nov 12, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Aurora - New MySQL-Compatible Database Engine Is a relational workload that requires four-nines-plus availability like Amazon is touting really something an organization would be willing to run in the cloud? Especially since that category includes a lot of personally identifiable data that legally can't be trusted to a third party. Wonder what kind of use cases they're aiming for.

techdebt5112 on Nov 12, 2014 | [–]

people should be roughly as comfortable with this as with operating mysql on EC2 or using RDS, and I think that's quite common.

fortpoint on Nov 13, 2014 | [–]

Amazon's environments meet PCI standards and there are folks with PCI Level 1 companies running their infrastructure in AWS and storing credit card data there.

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