Amazon Aurora DSQL

AWSDatabases

Serverless distributed SQL database with multi-region active-active writes, strong consistency, PostgreSQL compatibility, and scale-to-zero billing — launched at re:Invent 2024 as AWS's answer to Spanner and CockroachDB for strongly-consistent globally-distributed workloads

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Attributes

Serverless: Yes
Strong Consistency: Yes
Active Active: Yes

Sub-services (3)

Single-Region Clusters

Serverless PostgreSQL with distributed transactions within one region

Multi-Region Clusters

Active-active two-region clusters with synchronous strong consistency

Peered Clusters

Linked clusters for failover topologies and regional isolation patterns

Compliance & Certifications

This service is attested for the following frameworks. Always verify with the provider before relying on a specific compliance posture.

GDPRSOC 2ISO 27001HIPAAPCI DSSFedRAMP

Where this runs

38 regions

27 countries

5sovereign

Sovereign regions (5)

AWS GovCloud (US-East) · AshburnAWS GovCloud (US)
AWS GovCloud (US-West) · HillsboroAWS GovCloud (US)
AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Brandenburg) · BrandenburgAWS European Sovereign Cloud
China (Beijing) · BeijingAWS China (Sinnet)
China (Ningxia) · YinchuanAWS China (NWCD)

Commercial regions (33)

Europe (8)

Europe (Paris)
Europe (Frankfurt)
Europe (Ireland)
Europe (Milan)
Europe (Spain)
Europe (Stockholm)
Europe (Zurich)
Europe (London)

North America (7)

Canada West (Calgary)
Canada (Central)
Mexico (Central)
US East (N. Virginia)
US West (Oregon)
US East (Ohio)
US West (N. California)

South America (1)

South America (São Paulo)

Asia (11)

Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)
Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)
Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
Asia Pacific (Jakarta)
Asia Pacific (Osaka)
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
Asia Pacific (Malaysia)
Asia Pacific (Singapore)
Asia Pacific (Seoul)
Asia Pacific (Taipei)
Asia Pacific (Thailand)

Oceania (2)

Asia Pacific (Melbourne)
Asia Pacific (Sydney)

Middle East (3)

Middle East (Bahrain)
Israel (Tel Aviv)
Middle East (UAE)

Africa (1)

Africa (Cape Town)

Equivalent services on other platforms

Cloud SpannerGCP

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable relational database

Pricing

Pricing model:pay-as-you-go