Amazon Aurora is a fully managed relational database service that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. With Aurora, we've completely reimagined how databases are built for the cloud, providing higher performance, availability, and durability than previously possible. In this session, we dive deep into the architectural details of Aurora with MySQL compatibility and review recent innovations, such as parallel query, backtrack, serverless, and multi-master. You also hear from Nintendo and DeNA about how they built the popular mobile game Mario Kart Tour with Aurora MySQL.