BIFOLD Colloquium 15/2024
December
18,
2024 
10:00
- 11:00
Amazon Aurora Internals
Abstract: Amazon Aurora provides unparalleled high-performance and availability at global scale with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. Aurora has broad compliance standards and best-in-class security capabilities. Aurora offers storage resiliency by making data durable across 3 AZs (customers only pay for 1 copy). Aurora has up to 99.99% availability, and customers can access local read performance with Global Database when deployed across AWS Regions. With serverless, Aurora can scale-up to hundreds of millions of transactions. In this talk, Nanda will present the internals of Amazon Aurora, the challenges that customers face, and some of the current areas of innovation.
Short Bio: Nanda Kaushik, Ph.D., is the Director of Aurora MySQL at Amazon Web Services. He describes himself as a seasoned technology executive, entrepreneur, and leader with a strong history of building, delivering, and operating enterprise-class, on-premise, cloud, and multi-tenant software.