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

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 200 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://it-ai-index.com/vendors/amazon-aurora/alternatives/

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

- Amazon RDS: 50
- Google Cloud SQL: 25
- Supabase: 22
- DigitalOcean Managed Databases: 16
- Neon: 14
- Azure SQL Database: 11

## Managed relational databases

**Small business**: 79 of 84 answers did not name Amazon Aurora (Amazon Aurora is #7 of 8 at 1%).

- Amazon RDS: first choice in 21 of those 79
- Supabase: first choice in 18 of those 79
- Google Cloud SQL: first choice in 13 of those 79
- DigitalOcean Managed Databases: first choice in 12 of those 79
- Neon: first choice in 9 of those 79
- Azure SQL Database: first choice in 2 of those 79
- PostgreSQL: first choice in 2 of those 79
- Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL or MySQL: first choice in 1 of those 79

**Mid-market**: 64 of 84 answers did not name Amazon Aurora (Amazon Aurora is #2 of 9 at 12%).

- Amazon RDS: first choice in 20 of those 64
- Google Cloud SQL: first choice in 7 of those 64
- Neon: first choice in 5 of those 64
- DigitalOcean Managed Databases: first choice in 4 of those 64
- Supabase: first choice in 4 of those 64
- Azure SQL Database: first choice in 2 of those 64
- Clever Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 64

**Enterprise**: 57 of 84 answers did not name Amazon Aurora (Amazon Aurora is #1 of 8 at 26%).

- Amazon RDS: first choice in 9 of those 57
- Azure SQL Database: first choice in 7 of those 57
- Google Cloud SQL: first choice in 5 of those 57
- Azure SQL Managed Instance: first choice in 2 of those 57
- AWS: first choice in 1 of those 57
- Amazon Aurora with I/O-Optimized pricing: first choice in 1 of those 57
- Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) on AWS: first choice in 1 of those 57
- Amazon RDS for SQL Server: first choice in 1 of those 57

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