AWS Closes the Gap Between Aurora and Other Services

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), has added new features in its Aurora relational database engine to improve its integration with other AWS services.
The MySQL-compatible Aurora database was launched just over a decade ago. According to AWS, it is now the fastest-growing product.
Two new features were announced Tuesday to improve Aurora’s interaction with Lambda, AWS’ serverless, event-driven computing service.
The Lambda integration allows users to invoke Lambda functions from within Aurora. “Now, stored procedures can invoke Lambda functions. This extensibility mechanism allows for wired connectivity to your Aurora-based database with other AWS services. In a blog post, Jeff Barr, AWS evangelist, explained how you can send e mail using Amazon Simple Email Service, issue a notification using Amazon Simple Notification Service, insert publish metrics to Amazon CloudWatch and update a Amazon DynamoDB Table.
“At the application layer, you can implement complex ETL jobs, workflows, track, audit, and analyze database tables, as well as perform advanced performance monitoring, analysis, and analysis.”
The integration with S3 allows Aurora users to import data from an S3 bucket directly without having to copy it into an Elastic Compute Cloud instance (EC2).
Barr pointed out that users must grant Aurora permission to access other AWS service before they can use either feature.
He wrote that both of these features involve Amazon Aurora, another AWS service, so you must grant Amazon Aurora permission access to the service by creating an IAM policy and IAM role, and then attaching this Role to your Amazon Aurora cluster database cluster.”