[dmarinus]

I talked to people at AWS who work in RDS Aurora and they hinted they use S3 internally as a backend for MySQL and PostgreSQL.

[WatchDog]

Maybe for snapshots, but certainly not for live data.

[shell_game]

EBS not S3

[readyman]

Big if true. That was definitely not in the AWS cert I took lol.

[multani]

Separating compute and storage is one of the core idea behind Aurora. They talked about it in several places, for instance:

* https://www.amazon.science/publications/amazon-aurora-design... * https://d1.awsstatic.com/events/reinvent/2019/REPEAT_Amazon_...