# 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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**Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 4:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/aurora-i-o/251937/6 "2023-01-16T16:59:44Z")

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> [@pqMMA](#):
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> Also my developer noted: “Aurora was done to not provision/allocate space beforehand and better management”

It’s part of the trade-off. No need to handle disk space alerts in exchange for paying more for the service.

I tested Aurora (couple of years ago) and it didn’t pass all Discourse tests at the time. We run hundreds of Discourse instances in AWS, but we use PostgreSQL RDS in all of those.

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