Amazon Aurora DSQL

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Post by aws_hero » Tue, Dec 03, 2024, 5:30 PM UTC

Re: Amazon Aurora DSQL

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Post by benterix » Tue, Dec 03, 2024, 6:00 PM UTC

> Amazon Aurora DSQL is a serverless distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, the highest availability, and zero infrastructure management.

I will ignore their claimed almost unlimited scalability (which I somewhat believe as it's in their best interest to make it expensive fast), and "highest" (as compared to what?) availability. But my pet peeve is zero infrastructure management. This is blatantly false and it always was - when they first announced their cloud (at that time called "web") services, when they marketed their solutions as "serverless", and now. You need to have well-trained staff to maintain your AWS infrastructure otherwise you will come across many problems.

Re: Amazon Aurora DSQL

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Post by redwood » Tue, Dec 03, 2024, 6:00 PM UTC

In my experience, multi-region databases are used for HA/DR more so than for "writing locally from multiple places". What this means is that the multi-region "consensus cost" is a far easier problem. It looks like DSQL is aiming to change that paradigm: the question is, will this actually mean multiple-region writes become democratized finally? or will this remain more of a database industry marketing talking point that essentially no one uses?

Re: Amazon Aurora DSQL

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Post by politelemon » Tue, Dec 03, 2024, 6:01 PM UTC

I am confused, what is the difference between Aurora DSQL and Aurora Serverless?

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/

Re: Amazon Aurora DSQL

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Post by gjsman-1000 » Tue, Dec 03, 2024, 6:01 PM UTC

benterix wrote: post #2

> Amazon Aurora DSQL is a serverless distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, the highest availability, and zero infrastructure management. I will ignore their claimed almost unlimited scalability (which I somewhat believe as it's in their best interest to make it expensive fast), and "highest" (as compared to what?) availability. But my pet peeve is zero infrastructure management . This is blatantly…

I think this is way, way too pessimistic and unfair. When they say zero, it's like a food item that says zero calories. It might have up to five calories while still saying zero, but that's very different than three hundred.

Managing a SQL Database at scale is more like four thousand calories daily, if I continue stretching this analogy. :)

Re: Amazon Aurora DSQL

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Post by nextworddev » Tue, Dec 03, 2024, 6:07 PM UTC

politelemon wrote: post #4

I am confused, what is the difference between Aurora DSQL and Aurora Serverless? https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/

Aurora might be tied to region

Re: Amazon Aurora DSQL

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Post by octernion » Tue, Dec 03, 2024, 6:08 PM UTC

love that i can spin this up and spend money before any of the documentation is available. neat-o

Re: Amazon Aurora DSQL

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Post by kbumsik » Tue, Dec 03, 2024, 6:09 PM UTC

So does it scale to zero, and scale from zero with AWS' recent "serverless" products, Aurora Serverless v2 and MSK Serverless for example, had been very misleading with "serverless" title.

I hope it is not a lie this time.

Re: Amazon Aurora DSQL

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Post by epaulson » Tue, Dec 03, 2024, 6:10 PM UTC

It's frustrating that there's no pricing information. The tech looks cool and all, but without knowing how much it's going to cost there's no way to really evaluate it.

Re: Amazon Aurora DSQL

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Post by estebarb » Tue, Dec 03, 2024, 6:11 PM UTC

Too bad the details how it works aren't available yet: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aurora-dsql/latest/userguide/get...

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