Episode 51 - Modern Relational Database Built for the Cloud

In this themed episode of AWS TechChat, Shane and Gabe talk about the modern relational database built for the cloud: Amazon Aurora. So prepare to SELECT some Amazon Aurora knowledge INTO your brain! They start the episode with some level setting. Amazon Aurora is a fully-managed MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible database, purpose-built for the cloud. It has great performance, and it gives enterprise-grade reliability at 1/10th the cost of traditional options. It has a distributed, fault-tolerant, self-healing storage system that auto-scales up to 64TB. Keeping it modern and real, they then discuss Amazon Aurora Serverless, which is an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration for Amazon Aurora where the database will automatically start up, shut down, and scale capacity up or down based on your app's needs. It enables you to run your database with all the benefits that serverless brings. Finally, they close the show out with a discussion around Amazon Aurora Global Database, which is designed for globally distributed applications, allowing a single Amazon Aurora database to span multiple AWS regions. It replicates your data with no impact to database performance, enables fast local reads with low latency in each region, and provides disaster recovery from region-wide outages. Resources: • AWS Innovate 2019 Global Edition https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/ • Amazon CloudFront https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ • Lambda@Edge https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/edge/ • AWS Aurora https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/ • Amazon Aurora Serverless https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/ • Amazon Aurora Global Database https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/global-database/