MySQL Performance: 5.7 and RDS Aurora, so what?.. ;-) MySQL Performance: 5.7 and RDS Aurora, so what?.. ;-) It was very fun for me to read last week the announces about RDS Aurora - specially the parts related to its performance gain over MySQL: Aurora is claimed to show x5 times better performance than MySQL! However, without publishing any details about ;-) -- and the only details I was able to