Highlights from Peter DeSantis Keynote at re:Invent 2023

Announcement – Amazon Aurora Limitless Database (currently in preview)

Aurora Limitless Database scales write throughput and storage capacity of your database beyond the limits of a single Aurora writer instance.

References:

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-aurora-limitless-database/
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/join-the-preview-amazon-aurora-limitless-database/

Announcement – Amazon ElastiCache Serverless

ElastiCache Serverless constantly monitors your application’s memory, CPU, and network resource utilization and scales instantly to accommodate changes to the access patterns of workloads it serves.

References:

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-elasticache-serverless/
• https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/features/#Serverless
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-elasticache-serverless-for-redis-and-memcached-now-generally-available/

Announcement – Amazon Redshift Serverless with AI-driven scaling and optimizations (currently in preview)

With these new AI-driven scaling and optimizations, Amazon Redshift Serverless learns your workload patterns based on dimensions like query complexity and data volumes.

References:

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-redshift-serverless-ai-driven-scaling-optimizations-preview/
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/mgmt/serverless-capacity.html#serverless-auto-optimization

The full keynote is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJG6nmR7XxI

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