Transactions and Coordination in Amazon Aurora DSQL @CMUDatabaseGroup

Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Marc Brooker, VP and Distinguished Engineer at AWS, discusses Aurora DSQL, a new global, serverless, scalable relational database system developed at AWS. He explains the system's architecture, how it handles transactions, and its design focus on minimizing coordination. Additionally, he covers transaction protocols, isolation, and virtualization.

Transactions and Coordination in Amazon Aurora DSQL

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