December 7, 2020

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AWS Introduces Preview of Aurora Serverless v2

AWS Introduces Preview of Aurora Serverless v2

During the first keynote of re:Invent 2020, AWS announced the next version of Amazon Aurora Serverless in preview. The new serverless version for the MySQL 5.7-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora scales in fraction of a second and introduces multi-AZ support, global databases, and read replicas. By Renato Losio

Author: Renato Losio

Date: 2020-12-06

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