# Amazon Aurora alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 168 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Amazon Aurora holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/amazon-aurora/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Amazon RDS: 39
- Supabase: 25
- DigitalOcean Managed Databases: 12
- Azure SQL Database: 9
- Google Cloud SQL: 9
- Neon: 7

## Managed relational databases

**Small business**: 73 of 84 answers did not name Amazon Aurora (Amazon Aurora is #6 of 8 at 5%).

- Supabase: first choice in 22 of those 73
- Amazon RDS: first choice in 15 of those 73
- DigitalOcean Managed Databases: first choice in 8 of those 73
- Neon: first choice in 5 of those 73
- PlanetScale: first choice in 4 of those 73
- Google Cloud SQL: first choice in 3 of those 73
- Azure SQL Database: first choice in 2 of those 73
- Aiven Developer Tier: first choice in 1 of those 73

**Mid-market**: 50 of 84 answers did not name Amazon Aurora (Amazon Aurora is #4 of 11 at 8%).

- Amazon RDS: first choice in 15 of those 50
- DigitalOcean Managed Databases: first choice in 4 of those 50
- Google Cloud SQL: first choice in 4 of those 50
- Azure SQL Database: first choice in 3 of those 50
- Supabase: first choice in 3 of those 50
- Neon: first choice in 2 of those 50
- Aiven Developer Tier for PostgreSQL / MySQL: first choice in 1 of those 50
- Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL or MySQL: first choice in 1 of those 50

**Enterprise**: 45 of 84 answers did not name Amazon Aurora (Amazon Aurora is #1 of 8 at 43%).

- Amazon RDS: first choice in 9 of those 45
- Azure SQL Database: first choice in 4 of those 45
- Google Cloud SQL: first choice in 2 of those 45
- AWS: first choice in 1 of those 45
- Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized: first choice in 1 of those 45
- Azure SQL Database / Managed Instance: first choice in 1 of those 45
- Managed MySQL: first choice in 1 of those 45
- Microsoft SQL Server: first choice in 1 of those 45

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