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You can read the blog post that I wrote last year when we announced Aurora to learn more about how it works:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/highly-scalable-mysql-compa...



Do you have any plans for Geo functionality? We're working on a massive project that Aurora sounds perfect for, aside from the apparent lack of that feature.


It seems like MySQL 5.7 will start to have better GIS support. Though that is still a development release at this point. Hopefully if Amazon tries to maintain compatibility, native GIS support may eventually arrive.




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