AWS just announced Aurora DSQL - a purpose built, postgres-compatible serverless database and take it from me - it's amazing. I've had a few months to play with it (more soon), but it's truly the single most exciting launch I've seen from AWS in a while. You've gotta try it - ThreadSky

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ajs.bsky.social • 85 days ago

AWS just announced Aurora DSQL - a purpose built, postgres-compatible serverless database and take it from me - it's amazing.

I've had a few months to play with it (more soon), but it's truly the single most exciting launch I've seen from AWS in a while.

You've gotta try it

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alvinjohansson.com•85 days ago

Is it truly serverless? Does it scale to 0?

ajs.bsky.social•85 days ago

;)

kgmogane.bsky.social•85 days ago

If the pricing doesn't match Turso then sorry I'm not interested.

ajs.bsky.social•85 days ago

I'm told it will be exceedingly competitive

skorfmann.com•85 days ago

Ah, extensions are not supported (yet?) https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aurora-dsql/latest/userguide/working-with-postgresql-compatibility-unsupported-features.html

skorfmann.com•85 days ago

Sweet, some genuinely interesting launches after all 😀

ajs.bsky.social•85 days ago

Storage and compute are fully separated, global elasticity and replication is entirely managed, and the performance is incredible.

Like I've shared for a while, fast global transactions are enabled by things like globally accurate, micro-second clocks