Core concept
Storage: 6 copies across 3 AZs. Auto-heals from failed segments. Handles up to 128 TB per instance.
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How it works
Aurora Serverless v2: scales instantly. Aurora Global DB: cross-region replicas with <1s lag.
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Trade-offs + gotchas
New AWS deployments. Migrating from RDS MySQL/Postgres. Read-heavy apps. Global apps needing multi-region reads.