Amazon Aurora is a managed relational database service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It is designed to be compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL, offering high performance, availability, and scalability.

Amazon Aurora MySQL is one of the database engines provided by Aurora, specifically compatible with MySQL. It offers some additional features and benefits over traditional MySQL databases, such as:

1. Performance: Aurora MySQL is designed to deliver higher performance compared to standard MySQL databases, thanks to its architecture that takes advantage of AWS’s cloud infrastructure and storage optimizations.

2. Fault-tolerant and Highly Available: Aurora MySQL offers automatic data replication across multiple Availability Zones, ensuring data redundancy and high availability. If one Availability Zone goes down, the system can automatically fail over to a replica in another zone.

3. Automatic Backups: Aurora MySQL provides automated backups, helping to protect your data and allowing you to restore to a specific point in time.

4. Scalability: Aurora MySQL can automatically scale up or down based on the workload, ensuring that you have the required resources to handle varying levels of demand.

5. Read Replicas: You can create read replicas of your Aurora MySQL database to offload read traffic and improve overall performance.

6. Global Databases: Aurora Global Database allows you to deploy a single Aurora database across multiple AWS regions for disaster recovery and low-latency global reads.

7. Storage Auto Scaling: Aurora MySQL can automatically adjust its storage capacity based on the actual usage, reducing the need for manual intervention.

8. Compatible with MySQL: Aurora MySQL is designed to be compatible with MySQL, making it easier to migrate existing MySQL databases to Aurora without major code changes.