With Wednesday’s preview release of a new database service called Aurora, Amazon Web Services claims to have supercharged the open source MySQL with the high performance, reliability, and scalability characteristics typically associated with commercial database systems–at the fraction of the cost for these products.

“Lots of enterprises are using MySQL, and they would like to put more workloads on MySQL, but it is very challenging to get the kind of performance they want from these sorts of open source database engines,” said Andy Jassy, senior vice president overseeing the Amazon Web Services, during a press conference at the company’s Re:Invent conference, being held this week in Las Vegas.

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