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Jeff Barr ☁️ (@ 🏠 )

4 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read

Let's do a quick Friday recap of three important #AWS database launches & previews from earlier this week -- Babelfish, AWS Glue Elastic Views, and Aurora Serverless v2....

Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL is a SQL Server-compatible end-point for PostgreSQL so you can easily migrate from SQL Server to Aurora. It understands T-SQL and speaks the TDS protocol, and will be released under the Apache 2.0 license!

Learn more: aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensour…

AWS Glue Elastic Views lets you build materialized views that combine & replicate data from multiple data stores without writing custom code. The preview supports DynamoDB, S3, Redshift, and Amazon Elasticsearch Service & more in the works.

Learn more: aws.amazon.com/glue/features/…

Aurora Serverless v2 (also preview) scales instantly to handle hundreds of thousands of TPS, and can save you 90% of database cost compared to provisioning for peak load. Also supports Multi-AZ, Global Database, and read replicas.

Learn more: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/what…

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