love that i can spin this up and spend money before any of the documentation is available. neat-o
it's free during preview
Amazon Aurora DSQL
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Re: Amazon Aurora DSQL
#22> 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. :)
I don't disagree about the service itself having relatively few calories (I'd argue it's far more then 5, but that's a minor point). The reality is that you need a ton of other things to have it running properly - from a properly created and maintained AWS account, to proper IAM roles with correct permissions, to correct deployment/modification setup and other resources as a database rarely exists in a vacuum. And because Amazon decided not to implement spending cap, if you don't have the right competences, you are at risk losing money - and this is especially true for serverless services. I still remember the folks who set the same bucket for lambda notifications look with panic as their bill increases dramatically as they watch it growing, not knowing how to stop the whole process.[0]
[0] They disabled the trap a few weeks ago, finally: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/10/aws-lambd...
Re: Amazon Aurora DSQL
#23The only announcement I want from AWS about databases is that the price for RDS is going down. Not that they have new chip that is more expensive but offers better price/performance, but that my bill is actually going to drop. I don't trust them enough to use non-portable technology like this until they give me confidence they are committed to lowering prices.
> The only announcement I want from AWS about databases is that the price for RDS is going down.
If the price hasn't been going up in line with inflation then it's been going down in real terms. Not as nice as the number going down, too, but it's not nothing. Over time AWS prices have significantly declined in real terms simply by not having been raised in nominal value.
Re: Amazon Aurora DSQL
#24The only announcement I want from AWS about databases is that the price for RDS is going down. Not that they have new chip that is more expensive but offers better price/performance, but that my bill is actually going to drop. I don't trust them enough to use non-portable technology like this until they give me confidence they are committed to lowering prices.
It's Postgres compatible, so not exactly non-portable
Re: Amazon Aurora DSQL
#25It doesn't talk too much about data consistency.
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
Re: Amazon Aurora DSQL
#26Too bad the details how it works aren't available yet: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aurora-dsql/latest/userguide/get... Stay Tuned We're sorry. The documentation you are looking for is not yet available. Please check back soon. -The Amazon Web Services Documentation Team
I think like other products, there will be a tech presentation and there they will talk in details. So hopefully later this week?
Re: Amazon Aurora DSQL
#27Too bad the details how it works aren't available yet: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aurora-dsql/latest/userguide/get... Stay Tuned We're sorry. The documentation you are looking for is not yet available. Please check back soon. -The Amazon Web Services Documentation Team
You know true Cutting-edge Technology when you see ... there's no documentation available.
Re: Amazon Aurora DSQL
#28The only announcement I want from AWS about databases is that the price for RDS is going down. Not that they have new chip that is more expensive but offers better price/performance, but that my bill is actually going to drop. I don't trust them enough to use non-portable technology like this until they give me confidence they are committed to lowering prices.
Of all the services AWS has, RDS is one of the best values and lowest risks. The peace of mind and reliability it gives you on something as important as a DB is well worth the cost.
Re: Amazon Aurora DSQL
#29Too bad the details how it works aren't available yet: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aurora-dsql/latest/userguide/get... Stay Tuned We're sorry. The documentation you are looking for is not yet available. Please check back soon. -The Amazon Web Services Documentation Team
Some of the docs are up: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aurora-dsql/latest/userguide/wha...
EDIT: Your link is up now too.
Re: Amazon Aurora DSQL
#30Very interesting. My dream is to have something like this, a KV-store, a blob store, and pubsub all behind the same interface.