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Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases

Summary: Aurora shifts OLTP bottlenecks to a network-aware design, pushing redo to a multi-tenant scale-out storage service for fast recovery and failover. Asynchronous consensus across storage nodes yields durable state with low recovery chatter, sharing production lessons for cloud DBs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
5350
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2017
Pagerank
0.00040580118
Overall Rank
156 | 98.92%
DOI
10.1145/3035918.3056101

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