Amazon Aurora DSQL
Amazon Aurora DSQL is a high-performance, serverless distributed SQL database designed for always available applications. It delivers the fastest multi-Region reads and writes, allowing organizations to scale effortlessly to meet any workload demand with zero infrastructure management and no downtime maintenance. Aurora DSQL features an active-active distributed architecture, ensuring strong data consistency and is engineered for 99.99% single-Region and 99.999% multi-Region availability. This enables applications to remain continuously available and ensures access to the latest data from any Region, even in rare cases of Regional endpoint connectivity issues. Aurora DSQL is PostgreSQL-compatible, providing a familiar and easy-to-use developer experience.
- Virtually unlimited scale: Automatically scales to meet any workload demand without the need for database sharding or instance upgrades. Offers independent scaling for reads, writes, storage, and compute.
- High availability: Designed for up to 99.999% availability with no single point of failure and automated failure recovery, ensuring strong consistency and durability for all reads and writes.
- No infrastructure management: Eliminates the need for server provisioning, patching, management, or upgrades. Updates are handled automatically with zero downtime and no impact on performance.
- Developer-friendly: Quick and easy database creation with PostgreSQL compatibility, streamlining the process of building new applications.
Amazon Aurora DSQL is ideal for building serverless applications at any scale, developing next-generation solutions for industries such as banking, ecommerce, travel, and retail, and deploying multi-Region or SaaS applications that require high performance, reliability, and scalability.
Included in the Free Tier
- First 100,000 DPUs per month at no charge
- First 1 GB of storage per month at no charge
- Free tier benefits automatically applied to monthly bill
- Sufficient capacity for small-scale apps or development environments
- No DPU charges when cluster is idle
- Free tier applies per management account in AWS Organizations
Visit the Amazon Aurora DSQL Pricing Page for more information on its free tier offering.