# FoundationDB vs Amazon Aurora

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**Category:** Using FoundationDB\
**Created:** [January 12, 2019, 4:20pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/foundationdb-vs-amazon-aurora/1009 "2019-01-12T16:20:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 4:20pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/foundationdb-vs-amazon-aurora/1009/1 "2019-01-12T16:20:31Z")

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Hi,

If someone were to build a MySQL layer on top of FoundationDB, in that case what would be the main value difference between FoundationDB+MySQL layer vs. Amazon Aurora?

Thanks,

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