# Aurora I/O

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/aurora-i-o/251937>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** hosting\
**Created:** [January 16, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/aurora-i-o/251937 "2023-01-16T16:01:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 4:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/aurora-i-o/251937/2 "2023-01-16T16:25:07Z")

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This forum here is ran on EC2 / RDS, so we are quite familiar with it.

My first question will be: why are you using Aurora? Why wasn’t standard PostgreSQL on RDS adequate?

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