Netflix migrated from self-managed PostgreSQL on EC2 to Amazon Aurora, achieving 75% lower latency and 28% reduction in database management costs. The key technical advantage is Aurora's memory architecture: it allocates ~75% of memory to shared buffer cache and eliminates the OS page cache layer, reducing duplicate cache entries and serving most reads/writes directly from memory. The migration also eliminated manual scaling, fault tolerance management, and database upgrade overhead.
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