PlanetScale vs. Amazon Aurora
Oct 5, 2023PlanetScale

Summary
This post compares PlanetScale's database branching and change management capabilities with Amazon Aurora's blue/green deployments. It highlights PlanetScale's use of Vitess and Kubernetes for non-blocking, rolling upgrades and its Git-like workflow for schema changes, contrasting this with Aurora's lack of native tooling for schema changes and its reliance on Aurora Backtrack for recovery from DDL operations.