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AWS re:Invent 2016: Deep Dive on Amazon Aurora (DAT303)

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An in-depth look at the distributed storage and engine innovations behind Amazon Aurora's performance and availability.

Amazon Aurora is a fully managed relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. It is purpose-built for the cloud using a new architectural model and distributed systems techniques to provide far higher performance, availability and durability than previously possible using conventional monolithic database architectures. Amazon Aurora packs a lot of innovations in the engine and storage layers. In this session, we will do a deep-dive into some of the key innovations behind Amazon Aurora, new improvements to Aurora's performance, availability and cost-effectiveness and discuss best practices and optimal configurations.

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On “What database driver should be used to access AWS Aurora?”

Question was edited after this answer, this answer is for the JVM ecosystem. At a conference at re:Invent 2016, it was mentioned that using MariaDB driver can make failovers faster since the driver register the IPs of the nodes so your application don't have to wait for DNS propagation in case of a failover. At around the 28 minutes mark link to this video. Update March 5th, 2018 Since this answer, the support has been officially documented. See https://mariadb.com/kb/en/failover-and-high-availability-with-mariadb-connector-j-for-2x-driver/#specifics-for-amazon-aurora for the specifics. Update February 11th, 2022 MariaDB driver 3.x unfortunately dropped the support for Aurora since they l…
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