Introducing Amazon 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 eliminates the operational burden of patching, upgrades, and maintenance downtime. Aurora DSQL is PostgreSQL-compatible and provides an easy-to-use developer experience.

Aurora DSQL is optimized for transactional workloads that benefit from ACID transactions and a relational data model. Because it's serverless and optimized for transactional workloads, Aurora DSQL is ideal for application patterns of microservice, serverless, and event-driven architectures. Aurora DSQL is PostgreSQL compatible, so you can use familiar drivers, object-relational mappings (ORMs), frameworks, and SQL features.

Aurora DSQL automatically scales compute, I/O, and storage, so it can efficiently adapt to your workload needs. The active-active serverless design automates failure recovery, so you don't have to worry about traditional database failover. This means that your applications benefit from Multi-AZ and multi-Region availability, and you don't have to be concerned about eventual consistency or missing data related to failovers. Aurora DSQL helps you to build and maintain applications that are always available at any scale.

To learn more about Aurora DSQL, check out our launch blog.