Using Aurora's Global Database and Serverless options

Aurora offers two advanced features that can make a huge difference for certain use cases. In particular, customers who have a worldwide customer base can use Global Database options to reduce the latency between the database and applications around the world, improving performance. Customers with unpredictable or intermittent workloads can benefit from Aurora Serverless, where they can use a database without having to define the compute. Let's start by looking at Aurora Global Database in more depth.

Aurora Global Database

Aurora Global Database allows you to create a cross-region Aurora cluster where you can send read requests all over the world. This allows you to have read replicas in the same regions as your applications and users to greatly reduce latency times and improve the performance of your applications.

Aurora Global Database can also offer rapid recovery from a region outage, as any of the secondary...