Amazon Aurora is described as 'Provides built-in security, continuous backups, serverless compute, up to 15 read replicas, automated multi-Region replication, and integrations with other AWS services' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Amazon Aurora for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Self-Hosted, Linux, Web-based and SaaS apps. The best Amazon Aurora alternative is PostgreSQL, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Amazon Aurora are MySQL Community Edition, Microsoft SQL Server, Triplit and Google Cloud Spanner.