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Amazon Aurora: A look under the hood
Debanjan Saha - Amazon RDS at Amazon Web Service
2117 Computer Science Instructional Center (CSI)
Friday, September 7, 2018, 11:00 am-12:00 pm Calendar
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Abstract
In this talk, I’ll do a deep-dive into Amazon Aurora, a new cloud-native database service for OLTP workloads that is designed from the ground up to exploit resource abundance in the cloud as opposed to traditional designs that optimize for resource scarcity. Aurora offers a novel architecture in the 30-year old relational database space, moving the monolithic database stack to a service-oriented architecture, starting with pushing the lowest layers of the database into a distributed multi-tenant log-structured storage service. It has been under development for four years, with numerous innovations throughout – low latency read replicas, instant crash recovery, in-place rewind, copy-on-write cloning, zero-downtime patching etc. I will present an under the hood view of some of these key innovations, review performance results and how we achieve them, and share real-life application use cases.


Bio
Debanjan Saha is the General Manager of Amazon RDS at Amazon Web Services. In this role, Debanjan leads engineering, operations, and go-to-market strategies for all Relational Database Services including Amazon Aurora, a massively scalable relational database service re-imagined for the cloud. Prior to joining Amazon, Debanjan held multiple executive and technical leadership positions in IBM where he led the development of Storwize virtualizing storage controller and created a $1B/year business. Earlier in his career Debanjan was with Tellium, an optical networking pioneer that he helped grow from an early stage start-up to a public company.

Debanjan is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Distinguished Scientist of the ACM. He has co-authored a book, 50+ patent applications, and numerous technical articles including award winning papers and Internet standards. He received MS and PhD degrees from University of Maryland, and a B.Tech from IIT, all in Computer Science.
This talk is organized by Brandi Adams