MariaDB + AWS
The World’s Most Trusted
Open Source Database,
Now on AWS
MariaDB and AWS, delivering enterprise database performance with the scale, reliability and ecosystem of Amazon’s global cloud infrastructure.
Proven technology. AWS-powered.
Open Source Freedom.
Enterprise Reliability.
MariaDB Cloud gives you 100% open source freedom without sacrificing the reliability, security and support that enterprise workloads demand. On AWS, you unlock AI ready infrastructure, the broadest global region footprint and seamless integration with the entire AWS ecosystem, from IAM to Amazon Bedrock.
3B+
Downloads: the world’s most popular open source database
30k+
Enterprise customers globally
Native Analytics Integration
Connect with Amazon Redshift and
AWS Glue for analyticsManaged Kubernetes
Deploy on Amazon EKS
with automatic scaling
Automated Backups
Automate snapshots and
backups to Amazon S3AI-Powered Query Optimization
Optimize queries using
Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker
Integrated Security
Integrate with AWS IAM and
AWS Security HubNative Vector Search
Power AI and RAG workloads,
without additional extensions
Trusted by:
Telecommunications
Industrial
B2B Commerce
Solutions
Built for every enterprise workload
From high-frequency transactional systems to petabyte-scale analytics on AWS.
OLTP & transactional workloads
Handle millions of transactions per second with full ACID compliance and sub-millisecond latency on AWS EC2 and EKS. Ideal for financial services, e-commerce and SaaS applications, with native support for multi-AZ deployments and automated failover via AWS infrastructure.
Analytics & Data Warehousing
Real-time analytics on operational data with MariaDB Exa, a columnar analytics engine that works alongside Amazon Redshift and AWS Glue for massive-scale analysis. Query billions of rows without impacting transactional performance. Pipe data to Amazon Kinesis or AWS Data Pipeline with ease.
Cloud-Native Applications
Built for modern microservices and containerized architectures on Amazon EKS. Manage schema evolution, scale connections dynamically, and integrate with Amazon SQS, AWS Lambda, and your CI/CD pipelines via AWS CodePipeline or GitHub Actions.
High-Availability Production
Mission-critical setup with MariaDB MaxScale intelligent query routing, automated primary election and cross-region disaster recovery using AWS’s multi-region architecture and Availability Zones, compliant with AWS Security Hub and AWS Config policies.
Getting started
Deploy in minutes, not months
AWS Marketplace removes procurement friction. From first click to production in three steps.
1
Find on AWS Marketplace
Search for MariaDB Enterprise Server or MariaDB Cloud in the AWS Marketplace. Start free, no commitment required. Consolidated billing, no separate contract.
2
One-Click Deploy
Select your EC2 instance type, AWS region, and HA configuration. Deploy onto EKS or EC2 in under 5 minutes.
3
Connect & Scale
Update your connection strings, configure MaxScale for intelligent routing, and scale horizontally on EKS as demand grows.
Platform capabilities
Enterprise-grade by default
Everything you need to run mission-critical databases in production on Amazon Web Services.
Automated backups & PITR
Continuous backups to Amazon S3 with point-in-time recovery and cross-region snapshot replication to protect your data from any incident.
Multi-Region Replication
Active-active replication across AWS Regions and Availability Zones for disaster recovery and low-latency global reads, integrated with Route 53 failover.
Security & Compliance
End-to-end encryption, AWS IAM integration, VPC Private Link, AWS Security Hub and SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA and FedRAMP compliance.
AWS CloudWatch Integration
Deep integration with CloudWatch Metrics, Logs Insights, and AWS X-Ray for full observability, custom dashboards, and automated alerting.
Zero-Downtime Updates
Rolling upgrades and configuration changes without any service interruption, powered by MaxScale and Amazon EKS rolling deployments.
24/7 Enterprise Support
MariaDB experts with enterprise SLAs and AWS Premium Support provide total cloud coverage, while AI copilots accelerate your schema design, query tuning and incident response.
Customer success story
How Emerald’s elastic suite
transforms wholesale commerce
“MariaDB Cloud gives us the confidence that our database can handle the heaviest loads while freeing up our developers to build the next generation of wholesale commerce tools. “
– Engineering Leadership, Emerald, Elastic Suite Platform
5x
Traffic surges handled without degradation
99.99%
Uptime across global B2B operations
50%
Reduction in database maintenance time
0
Unplanned outages during peak sell-in
The challenge
Emerald’s Elastic Suite, used by top global brands like The North Face, Patagonia and Vans, faces extreme 5× traffic surges during seasonal sell-in periods. The team was spending excessive time patching, scaling and managing MariaDB instances manually, diverting engineers from product innovation.
The solution
Emerald’s Elastic Suite, used by top global brands like The North Face, Patagonia and Vans, faces extreme 5× traffic surges during seasonal sell-in periods. The team was spending excessive time patching, scaling and managing MariaDB instances manually, diverting engineers from product innovation.
Now in technical preview
Introducing MariaDB Cloud Bring Your Own Account (BYOA)
Bring Your Own Account (BYOA): a new deployment model that runs fully managed MariaDB directly inside your own AWS account and VPC. Your data never leaves your environment. MariaDB handles provisioning, patching, failover and backups remotely.
BYOA is the middle ground between a traditional managed service and self-hosting: you get the operational simplicity of a fully managed database with complete control over where your data lives.
Data Sovereignty: All compute, storage and networking stay inside your AWS account and VPC, guaranteed.
Cloud Spend Optimization: Infrastructure costs bill directly to your AWS account. Apply your Reserved Instance commitments and Savings Plans.
Your Security Perimeter: Integrates with your existing AWS IAM roles, Security Groups and AWS Security Hub policies.
BYOA Architecture
Your AWS account
MariaDB Operations
Managed Remotely by MariaDB
Compute (EKS / EC2)
Networking (VPC)
Storage (EBS / S3)
Security (IAM / SG)
Provisioning
Automated Failover
Patching and Upgrades
Backups and PITR
Frequently asked questions
MariaDB Cloud on AWS is the fully managed answer. Unlike self-hosting MariaDB on EC2 or using AWS RDS’s basic managed instance, MariaDB Cloud gives you automatic primary election via MaxScale (failover in under 10 seconds), 24/7 access to MariaDB engineering experts and a 99.99% uptime SLA, all through a single AWS Marketplace subscription. No separate support contracts, no manual patching, no on-call DBA overhead.
AWS RDS MariaDB is a step in the right direction, but it lacks the migration tooling and Oracle compatibility layer you need for a smooth transition. MariaDB Cloud on AWS is the better choice: it includes a dedicated Oracle migration toolkit, expert schema assessment and PL/SQL compatibility for common Oracle stored procedures. Teams migrating from Oracle typically see 60–75% total cost reduction. Eliminating per-CPU Oracle licensing fees is the biggest driver.
Deploy MariaDB Cloud via the AWS Marketplace. It takes under 5 minutes to get a production-grade cluster running on EKS. For e-commerce specifically: enable MaxScale read/write splitting to offload product catalog reads from your transactional write primary, configure multi-AZ replication for zero-RPO failover and use Exa for real-time sales analytics without impacting checkout throughput. MariaDB Cloud’s enterprise support team can review your schema and recommend optimal indexing for e-commerce access patterns.
Aurora’s MariaDB-compatible mode offers high availability but with important caveats: you’re locked into AWS’s proprietary storage engine (not standard MariaDB InnoDB), which means behavior differences and no portability. Self-managed MariaDB Enterprise gives you full control but requires significant DBA investment. MariaDB Cloud on AWS is the third option that beats both: standard MariaDB Enterprise under the hood (no proprietary forks), fully managed operations, MaxScale HA with sub-10-second failover and the ability to migrate to any cloud or on-prem without re-platforming.
AWS RDS MariaDB runs standard MariaDB on managed EC2, simpler and more portable, but you manage HA yourself via multi-AZ with ~60–90 second failover. Aurora uses a proprietary distributed storage layer that gives faster failover (~30 seconds) but introduces compatibility gaps with standard MariaDB and hard vendor lock-in. For high-traffic production, MariaDB Cloud on AWS outperforms both: MaxScale delivers intelligent read/write splitting and sub-10-second failover, Exa handles analytics without a separate data warehouse and you retain full portability. It’s available directly on AWS Marketplace with consolidated billing.
Get started
Ready to run MariaDB
on Amazon Web Services?
Join thousands of enterprises running mission-critical workloads on MariaDB and AWS. Start free and scale as your workload grows.
