Published on: 2025-06-20 10:31:02
At re:Invent we announced Aurora DSQL, and since then I’ve had many conversations with builders about what this means for database engineering. What’s particularly interesting isn’t just the technology itself, but the journey that got us here. I’ve been wanting to dive deeper into this story, to share not just the what, but the how and why behind DSQL’s development. Then, a few weeks ago, at our internal developer conference — DevCon — I watched a talk from two of our senior principal engineers
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 16:49:36
The trigger for this discovery was the public Preview of Aurora DSQL at re:Invent 2024. Before the public release, access to DSQL had been restricted, requiring developers to be on the corporate VPN. Developers started to interact with DSQL off-VPN, and realized it was slower - way slower - than before. What could possibly explain this? Clearly, it’s “the network” since that’s the only difference. That doesn’t mean the office WiFi is slow - otherwise connections would always be slow, instead of
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