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AWS announces Aurora DSQL, a new distributed SQL database that promises virtually unlimited scalability

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Amazon Web Services unveils Aurora DSQL, a new serverless distributed SQL database promising 99.999% multi-region availability and PostgreSQL compatibility. The system offers 4x faster reads and writes than competitors, using active-active architecture and precise time synchronization to ensure strong consistency across regions without sharding.

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