Amazon Aurora Limitless Database

would be the non-editorialized submission, and would have advised potential readers that one cannot currently play with it without a ton of hoopjumpery

one will also want to watch out for this, buried 7 paragraphs in:

> The preview runs in a new Aurora PostgreSQL cluster with version 15 in the AWS US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Ireland) Regions.

Re: Amazon Aurora Limitless Database

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Post by figmert » Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 4:41 PM UTC

Dowwie wrote: post #4

AWS team needs to automate migrations from RDS to Aurora

Literally just today I was looking into a new project that requires postgres, and read on the aurora doc that this exists. Didn't look further into it considering the project is new and no migration is involved, but if you need this, worth searching.

Re: Amazon Aurora Limitless Database

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Post by nerdjon » Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 4:42 PM UTC

That is quite the ambitious name, obviously it can't really be "limitless" even if that limit is just whatever spare resources AWS has to run your database.

But they must be confident that that whatever the real limit is, is just not realistic for any use case.

Re: Amazon Aurora Limitless Database

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Post by dkhenry » Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 4:42 PM UTC

This sounds very exciting, but I would have greatly appreciated some actual technical details. From this statement

> Sharded tables – These tables are distributed across multiple shards. Data is split among the shards based on the values of designated columns in the table, called shard keys.

It sounds like this is very much managed CitusDB on top of Aurora, but without any details about the implementation its impossible to know if its just repackaged Citus, or some new novel technology built specifically for Aurora.

Re: Amazon Aurora Limitless Database

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Post by acdha » Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 4:44 PM UTC

nerdjon wrote: post #7

That is quite the ambitious name, obviously it can't really be "limitless" even if that limit is just whatever spare resources AWS has to run your database. But they must be confident that that whatever the real limit is, is just not realistic for any use case.

I believe it means “the bill will have you on the phone with your TAM discussing alternatives before you exceed what we can host”.

Re: Amazon Aurora Limitless Database

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Post by penguinpower » Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 4:46 PM UTC

> a new capability supporting automated horizontal scaling to process millions of write transactions per second and manage petabytes of data in a single Aurora database.

Limitless horizontal scaling is really cool and all, but does anyone not running a Fortune-500 Tech company actually need this kind of firepower?