At Amazon Web Services’ third annual re:Invent cloud computing conference the market’s leading infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) public provider revealed a variety of new cloud service features. Here’s a recap of AWS’s announcements from re:Invent 2014.

Amazon Aurora

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Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible database engine for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). AWS says it combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Aurora can process 6 million inserts to its database per minute, and 30 million selects per minute. AWS says that’s five times faster than using MySQL on its EC2 VMs.

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