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Dec 18, 2017 · Databases

How Aurora Redefines Cloud‑Native Relational Databases: Architecture, Benefits, and Limits

This article interprets the 2017 SIGMOD paper on Amazon Aurora, explaining its cloud‑native architecture, key advantages such as self‑healing storage and reduced network I/O, the challenges it introduces, a comparison with traditional databases and TiDB, and insights into deployment, replication, and recovery mechanisms.