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Amazon Aurora DSQL

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Amazon Aurora DSQL (preview)

Fastest serverless distributed SQL database for always available applications

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Why Aurora DSQL?

Amazon Aurora DSQL is a serverless distributed SQL database with
virtually unlimited scale, the highest availability, and zero
infrastructure management. Aurora DSQL offers the fastest distributed
SQL reads and writes and makes it effortless for you to scale to meet
any workload demand without database sharding or instance upgrades. With
its active-active distributed architecture, Aurora DSQL ensures strong
data consistency designed for 99.99% single-Region and 99.999%
multi-Region availability. Its serverless design removes the operational
burden of patching, upgrades, and maintenance downtime. Aurora DSQL is PostgreSQL-compatible and provides an easy-to-use developer experience.

Benefits of Aurora DSQL

Virtually unlimited scale

Scales to meet any workload demand without database sharding or instance upgrades. It provides virtually unlimited horizontal scaling with the flexibility to independently scale reads, writes, storage, and compute.  

Build always available apps

Ensure application resiliency as all reads and writes to any Regional endpoint are strongly consistent and durable. Also, Aurora DSQL is designed for up to 99.999% availability with no single point of failure and automated failure recovery.  

No infrastructure to manage

Remove infrastructure management as there are no servers to provision, patch, manage, or upgrade. Aurora DSQL automatically handles updates without downtime and with zero impact on application performance.  

Easy to use

Create a new database in a few quick steps. Aurora DSQL is PostgreSQL-compatible, providing an easy-to-use developer experience for building new apps.  

Use cases

Create cloud-native applications that will grow from start-up to enterprise scale without the need to upgrade or refactor along the way. Easily integrate with microservices and event-driven architectures. 

Design highly scalable applications and solutions for industries, such as banking, ecommerce, travel, and retail, with high availability and performance.

Develop data-driven applications, such as payment services, mobile games, and social media apps, that require multi-Region scalability and resilience.

Support reliable, high-performance, and multi-tenant software as a service (SaaS) applications with flexible instance and storage scaling.