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While Aurora doesn't provide true horizontal scalability, the same-node scalability seems so strong it might allow many companies to stay single-node for quite a while.

For example, see this benchmark:

http://2ndwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Graph-3.jpg

from this article:

http://2ndwatch.com/blog/benchmarking-amazon-aurora/

Thoughts?