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Amazon Aurora is a distributed database service provided by AWS. Its original paper describes the considerations in building a database for the cloud and details how Aurora's architecture differs from many traditional databases today. This post will explain how traditional databases work and then highlight how Aurora provides great performance through quorum writes and by building a database around the log. Table of Contents How databases work (simplified) Aurora Aurora decouples the storage l...