AWS Launches 4x Faster Distributed SQL Database Aurora DSQL

Amazon Aurora DSQL effortlessly scales to meet any workload demand and provides 99.999% multi-Region availability, strong consistency, and PostgreSQL compatibility, all with zero infrastructure management

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of Amazon Aurora DSQL, a serverless, distributed SQL database that enables customers to easily create databases to build applications with the highest availability, multi-Region strong consistency, PostgreSQL compatibility, and read and write speeds up to 4x faster than other popular distributed SQL databases. Until now, customers building globally distributed applications faced difficult trade-offs when selecting a database: Existing solutions offered either low latency without strong consistency, or strong consistency with high latency, but never both low latency and strong consistency in a highly available SQL database. With Aurora DSQL, customers no longer need to make these trade-offs, enabling them to build highly available applications at any scale without the operational burden of patching, upgrades, and maintenance downtime.

Amazon Aurora DSQL is now generally available in eight AWS Regions, with availability in additional Regions coming soon.
Customers and Partners including ADP, Cintra, Caylent, DeNA, Robinhood, and more are using Amazon Aurora DSQL to build highly resilient applications that meet the most stringent business continuity requirements.

"Modern applications require databases that can deliver both world-class performance and strong consistency without compromise," said G2 Krishnamoorthy, vice president of Database Services at AWS. "With Amazon Aurora DSQL, we've fundamentally reimagined distributed database architecture to enable customers to build applications with virtually unlimited scalability and zero operational overhead, while maintaining the strict consistency their businesses demand."

Amazon Aurora is a relational database built for the cloud, delivering all the performance and availability of a high-end commercial database with the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of an open source database. Today, hundreds of thousands of customers use Aurora for their relational databases. While Aurora provides a robust set of features to support customers’ data workloads and applications, real-time applications that serve millions of users worldwide can push the limits of a relational database by creating new challenges in scalability, consistency, and performance across geographically dispersed regions. Customers building these applications want a SQL database that operates seamlessly across multiple Regions with low latency, strong consistency, and high availability—all without the burden of infrastructure management.

With Aurora DSQL, customers do not have to make trade-offs between latency, consistency, and SQL. Aurora DSQL offers automated failure recovery, multi-Region strong consistency, and the ability to read and write from any Aurora DSQL endpoint, ensuring a customer’s application is always available. With Aurora DSQL, all transactions written in one Region are reflected in other Regions with strong consistency. Customers no longer have to worry about operational tasks like provisioning, patching, and managing database instances, and all updates occur with zero downtime and no performance impact. With Aurora DSQL, read and write operations are automatically and independently scaled without sharding or instance upgrades, and transaction processing is decoupled from storage, eliminating the traditional bottlenecks and back-and-forth communication that limit performance. Aurora DSQL also provides a Model Context Protocol server, making it easy for customers' generative AI models and AI-powered agents to interact with their database through natural language for use cases such as performance analysis, feature development, and building test environments. Aurora DSQL is PostgreSQL compatible, offering an easy-to-use developer experience. The serverless architecture and virtually unlimited scale of Aurora DSQL make it ideal for a wide range of workloads, from high-throughput financial transactions and real-time gaming leaderboards to social media applications and e-commerce platforms.

Customers welcome the general availability of Amazon Aurora DSQL

ADP is a global leader in providing comprehensive cloud-based human capital management solutions. “At ADP, we manage a vast amount of data across multiple regions to provide seamless access to payroll, human resources, and tax services for more than a million clients in over 140 countries and territories," said Jimmy Adams, chief product development officer at ADP. "With that size, scale, and our commitment to resiliency, Aurora DSQL further enhances our offerings. Aurora DSQL's single-digit millisecond response times, automatic scaling, and active-active multi-region architecture can help us efficiently handle surges in data volumes with ADP's large client base while maintaining transactional consistency across Regions.”

DeNA provides a wide range of services—including gaming, live communities, and healthcare and medical—to customers worldwide. “Our global operations necessitate the management of a large number of environments that demand scalability beyond the limits of a traditional relational database,” said Hiroyuki Nishizaki, infrastructure engineer at DeNA. “With Aurora DSQL, we can access a globally synchronized, low-latency relational database with virtually unlimited scalability through a single endpoint. This can help us greatly simplify our infrastructure management by replacing hundreds of database shards with Aurora DSQL.”

Robinhood is a financial services company that lets users trade stocks, options, futures, crypto, and more. “Aurora DSQL represents a significant advancement in simplifying horizontal scaling for relational workloads while maintaining strong consistency and multi-Region capabilities,” said Haotian Xu, storage engineer at Robinhood. “By providing virtually unlimited scalability from a single endpoint and eliminating the need for manual provisioning, patching, and management of database instances, Aurora DSQL is a huge opportunity to streamline our database operations. The efficiency gains and operational simplicity offered by Aurora DSQL are substantial, and we are excited to expand its use across our organization.”

Customers can get started in the Aurora DSQL Console with just a few clicks. There are no upfront commitments to use Aurora DSQL, and customers only pay for the distributed processing units (DPUs) and storage they use. With the AWS Free Tier, the first 100K DPUs and 1 GB of storage each month are free. Aurora DSQL is generally available today in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon), Europe (Paris), Europe (London), Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Osaka), with availability in additional Regions coming soon.

To learn more, visit:

The AWS News Blog for details on today’s announcement.
The Amazon Aurora page to learn more about these services.
The Amazon Aurora customer page to learn how companies are using this service.

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