Amazon Aurora DSQL is a brand-new, serverless distributed SQL service that provides multi-region, active-active reads and writes, strong ACID consistency, and virtually unlimited scalability without the need for manual sharding or instance provisioning.

In this session, we'll take a closer look under the hood to understand how DSQL lives up to its promises, tracing its high-level architecture to see how the design delivers global consistency and elastic scale while comparing those choices with Aurora Serverless v2, DynamoDB, and other AWS databases.

DSQL represents a significant shift in how we approach distributed database design, but like any technology, it comes with trade-offs. Let's explore together the specific scenarios when DSQL is the right tool and when another database option will serve you better.