Amazon Aurora DSQL Now Generally Available, Offering Scalable Global Consistency

Seattle, USA (May 27, 2025) – Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, today announced the general availability of Amazon Aurora DSQL.

This new offering is a serverless, distributed SQL database designed to help customers easily create databases for building applications that require high availability, multi-Region strong consistency, and high performance.

Aurora DSQL enables read and write speeds up to four times faster than other popular distributed SQL databases. It also solves a traditional challenge faced by customers building globally distributed applications: the need to choose between low latency (without strong consistency) and strong consistency (often with high latency).

Aurora DSQL aims to provide both low latency and strong consistency within a highly available SQL database, all without the operational burden of patching, upgrades, and maintenance downtime.

“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, on the news. “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.”

Amazon Aurora DSQL is now generally available in eight AWS Regions, with plans for availability in additional regions soon.

Several notable customers and partners, including ADP, Cintra, Caylent, DeNA, and Robinhood, are already utilizing Aurora DSQL to build highly resilient applications that meet stringent business continuity requirements.

Amazon Aurora is already widely used by hundreds of thousands of customers as a relational database built for the cloud, combining high performance and availability with the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of an open-source database.

However, real-time applications serving millions of users globally can strain traditional relational database limits, particularly concerning scalability, consistency, and performance across geographical regions.

Aurora DSQL is built to address these challenges, offering a SQL database that operates seamlessly across multiple Regions with low latency, strong consistency, high availability, and no infrastructure management overhead.

Key features of Aurora DSQL

• Automated failure recovery
• Multi-Region strong consistency: All transactions written in one Region are quickly reflected in others.
• Read and write from any endpoint: Ensures the application is always available.
• Zero downtime updates: Operational tasks like provisioning and patching occur without interrupting service or impacting performance.
• Automatic scaling: Read and write operations scale automatically and independently, without needing sharding or instance upgrades.
• Decoupled transaction processing: Transaction processing is separate from storage, eliminating traditional bottlenecks.
• AI Integration: Includes a Model Context Protocol server, making it easy for generative AI models and agents to interact with the database using natural language for various use cases.
• PostgreSQL compatibility: Offers an easy-to-use developer experience.

The serverless architecture and virtually unlimited scale make Aurora DSQL suitable for a wide range of demanding workloads, from high-throughput financial transactions and real-time gaming leaderboards to social media applications and e-commerce platforms.

Customers who have adopted Aurora DSQL shared positive feedback include:

• Jimmy Adams, chief product development officer at ADP, noted that Aurora DSQL’s single-digit millisecond response times, automatic scaling, and active-active multi-region architecture can help them efficiently handle data surges while maintaining transactional consistency.
• Hiroyuki Nishizaki, infrastructure engineer at DeNA, stated that Aurora DSQL’s globally synchronized, low-latency database with unlimited scalability through a single endpoint greatly simplifies their infrastructure management.
• Haotian Xu, storage engineer at Robinhood, highlighted Aurora DSQL’s significant advancement in simplifying horizontal scaling for relational workloads while maintaining strong consistency and multi-Region capabilities, offering substantial efficiency gains and operational simplicity.

Customers can get started with Aurora DSQL easily through the Aurora DSQL Console.

There are no upfront commitments, and pricing is based on distributed processing units (DPUs) and storage consumed.

The AWS Free Tier includes 100K DPUs and 1 GB of storage each month at no charge.

Amazon Aurora DSQL is currently available in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon) regions, as well as Europe (Paris), Europe (London), Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Osaka).

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