[3] In August 2017, Aurora Fast Cloning (copy-on-write) feature was added allowing customers to create copies of their databases.
[4] In May 2018, Aurora Backtrack was added which allows developers to rewind database clusters without creating a new one.
[7][8] In 2019 the developers of Aurora won the SIGMOD Systems Award for fundamentally redesigning relational database storage for cloud environments.
[9] Aurora automatically allocates database storage space in 10-gigabyte increments, as needed, up to a maximum of 128 terabytes.
[13] Aurora Multi-Master allows creation of multiple read-write instances in an Aurora database across multiple availability zones, which enables uptime-sensitive applications to achieve continuous write availability through instance failure.