Amazon Aurora DSQL: A Practical Guide to AWS's Distributed SQL Database

Architecture, features, Terraform setup, and real application code - April 2026 When AWS announced Aurora DSQL at re:Invent 2024, I was very interested. We had heard promises about distributed SQL databases before and I really wanted to try it out. I experimented with it locally for a while and then built the Kabob Store example on it. Fifteen months later, DSQL has gone from preview to general availability, expanded to 14 regions, and shipped a steady stream of features. It fills the gap betwee