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Introduction to Aurora Serverless v2 (DS SQL)
- Aurora DS SQL is AWS's newest database offering, optimized for transactional workloads.
- It is scalable, serverless, and offers active-active multi-region support.
- It is PostgreSQL-compatible, allowing users to leverage their existing PostgreSQL code and skills.
- The development of Aurora DS SQL has been a 4-year journey, drawing from AWS's extensive experience in running large-scale databases and services.
Simple Architectures with Aurora DS SQL
- A simple architecture with a single application server and a regional DS SQL endpoint can provide high availability, scalability, and durability.
- An even simpler architecture can be built using AWS Lambda and Lambda Function URLs, offering a highly scalable and serverless solution.
Scaling Considerations with Aurora DS SQL
- The key to scaling with Aurora DS SQL is to avoid "hot write keys" - keys that are frequently updated by concurrent transactions.
- Spreading updates across a larger number of keys can help avoid contentions and improve scalability.
- Another consideration is to avoid "hot key ranges" by ensuring the workload is evenly distributed across the key space.
Active-Active Multi-Region Architectures with Aurora DS SQL
- Multi-region architectures with Aurora DS SQL can be used to optimize for low-latency reads and writes, as well as to provide high availability and resilience.
- In a multi-region active-active architecture, each region runs a separate instance of the application, connected to its own regional Aurora DS SQL endpoint.
- This architecture provides seamless failover in the event of an entire region failure, with minimal downtime and data loss.
Isolation and Consistency in Aurora DS SQL
- Aurora DS SQL offers "strong snapshot isolation" as its default isolation level, providing a balance between performance and application-level complexity.
- Transactions in Aurora DS SQL are linearizable, ensuring strong consistency even in a distributed, multi-region setup.
- The use of transactions can actually improve latency and throughput, as the cost of cross-region coordination is amortized across multiple operations.
Conclusion and Next Steps
- The key takeaways from the talk include the benefits of simple architectures, the importance of avoiding hot keys, the advantages of active-active multi-region setups, and the strong isolation and consistency guarantees provided by Aurora DS SQL.
- Attendees are encouraged to try out Aurora DS SQL, provide feedback, and attend upcoming sessions to learn more about the service's internals and architecture.