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)
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Authors
- 1. Alexandre Verbitski (Amazon)
- 2. Anurag Gupta (Amazon)
- 3. Debanjan Saha (Amazon)
- 4. Murali Brahmadesam (Amazon)
- 5. Kamal Gupta (Amazon)
- 6. Raman Mittal (Amazon)
- 7. Sailesh Krishnamurthy (Amazon)
- 8. Sandor Maurice (Amazon)
- 9. Tengiz Kharatishvili (Amazon)
- 10. Xiaofeng Bao (Amazon)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{verbitski_sigmod17,
title = {{Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases}},
author = {Verbitski, Alexandre and Gupta, Anurag and Saha, Debanjan and Brahmadesam, Murali and Gupta, Kamal and Mittal, Raman and Krishnamurthy, Sailesh and Maurice, Sandor and Kharatishvili, Tengiz and Bao, Xiaofeng},
series = {{SIGMOD} '17},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3035918.3056101},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3035918.3056101},
year = {2017}
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels | 1995 | SIGMOD | 0.00058631912 |
| 47 | PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00043937456 |
| 172 | High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00027021768 |
| 365 | Hyder - A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash | 2011 | CIDR | 0.00019904414 |
| 891 | E-Store: Fine-Grained Elastic Partitioning for Distributed Transaction Processing Systems | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00013211469 |
| 1,085 | High Performance Transactions in Deuteronomy | 2015 | CIDR | 0.00012086316 |
| 1,192 | Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations | 2014 | VLDB | 0.00011555425 |
| 1,402 | LLAMA: A Cache/Storage Subsystem for Modern Hardware | 2013 | VLDB | 0.00010754882 |
| 1,952 | Scalable Atomic Visibility with RAMP Transactions | 2014 | SIGMOD | 9.2989778e-05 |
| 3,300 | Rethinking Eventual Consistency | 2013 | SIGMOD | 7.4253314e-05 |
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