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Re: Amazon Aurora Limitless Database

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> 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?

The people running a fortune 500 company are the majority of AWS income? I’d say it’s very relevant to them.

Re: Amazon Aurora Limitless Database

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post #5

> Join the preview of 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 Paci…

So basically 70% of AWS users can use it if they get accepted to the preview? Those regions seem chosen because they’re the biggest ones.

Re: Amazon Aurora Limitless Database

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post #8

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 impossi…

Likely it'll be talked about in-depth this week at Reinvent. This intro article is par for AWS "product announcements".
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