Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, announced the general availability of Amazon Aurora DSQL—a revolutionary serverless distributed SQL database. Purpose-built for high-performance applications, Aurora DSQL delivers multi-Region strong consistency, PostgreSQL compatibility, and up to 4x faster read and write speeds compared to other leading distributed SQL databases.
For organizations building globally distributed systems, balancing low latency and strong consistency has traditionally meant compromising one for the other. Aurora DSQL eliminates this trade-off, allowing developers to create resilient, highly available applications without the overhead of infrastructure management, including patching, scaling, and downtime.
Aurora DSQL Now Available Across Eight AWS Regions
Aurora DSQL is currently available in eight AWS Regions, including US East (N. Virginia and Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Paris, London, and Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo and Osaka). More Regions will be added soon to support growing global demand.
Leading organizations such as ADP, Cintra, Caylent, DeNA, and Robinhood are already leveraging Aurora DSQL to build mission-critical applications that require enterprise-grade availability and performance.
“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.”
Built for the Cloud, Optimized for Scale
Amazon Aurora has long been recognized as a powerful relational database optimized for the cloud, combining the performance and availability of commercial solutions with the cost-effectiveness of open source alternatives. While existing Aurora offerings support demanding workloads, real-time applications with millions of global users often encounter limitations in scalability and performance.
Aurora DSQL bridges this gap, offering:
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Active-active multi-Region architecture with strong consistency
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Automatic scaling of read/write operations without sharding
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Independent scaling of compute and storage layers
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Zero-downtime updates and maintenance
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PostgreSQL compatibility for developer ease
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AI-native integrations via a Model Context Protocol server, enabling AI models and agents to perform tasks like performance diagnostics and feature development through natural language
These features make Aurora DSQL ideal for a wide array of use cases, including high-frequency financial transactions, real-time gaming leaderboards, social platforms, and global e-commerce systems.
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Enterprise Adoption of Aurora DSQL
Leading companies across industries are already realizing the benefits of Aurora DSQL’s performance and simplicity: ADP, a global leader in cloud-based human capital management, praised Aurora DSQL’s performance: “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, a global provider of gaming, healthcare, and live community services, highlighted the database’s simplification of infrastructure: “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, the financial technology company known for democratizing investing, emphasized the operational benefits: “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.”
Getting Started with Aurora DSQL
Developers can start using Aurora DSQL directly from the Aurora DSQL Console with just a few clicks. There are no upfront commitments, and customers only pay for the distributed processing units (DPUs) and storage they consume. The AWS Free Tier offers 100,000 DPUs and 1 GB of storage per month at no cost.
With its serverless design, global scalability, and enterprise-grade consistency, Amazon Aurora DSQL sets a new standard for distributed SQL databases, empowering businesses to innovate without limits.