[rjsamson]

So the way Werner Vogels explained it at the AWS Summit in NYC recently, Aurora is built from scratch and is MySQL compatible, but it is not a fork. He mentioned that they broke it down into components which are each built on pre-existing AWS services - for example, the storage layer just DynamoDB which I thought was really interesting.

[juliangregorian]

I would love to hear more about this, if you know where I can find more info.

[rjsamson]

Here's the point in the keynote where he starts talking about it - really interesting stuff! https://youtu.be/0rPpCnFE-hU?t=33m34s