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Ankush has moved on to Snowflake now, but he was previously at AWS.

Yes it's a large chunk, but not everything! Marc had a comment on bluesky regarding this: > Many SQL aggregations are monotonic operations (e.g. MAX, SUM, etc) that can be partiall…

There's a blog with more technical details: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/introducing-amazon-aur... It provides strong consistency for cross-region transactions

It's Postgres compatible, so not exactly non-portable

There's a blog on the technical details here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/introducing-amazon-aur...

According to page 128 of their S-1 filing [0], their claims bot "AI Jim" processes claims without human intervention in a third of cases, including automatically denying claims. So…

Nope! Actually going off better info now it looks like they WERE using rows, but it was in the old .xls format instead of .xlsx which limits to 2^16 rows https://twitter.com/standu…

Columns, they were using a column per case instead of a row per case.