This is my notes on the paper: Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High
Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases
[https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/p1041-verbitski.pdf].

What's Amazon Aurora
Functionally speaking, an instance of Aurora…

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