Amazon Aurora Global Database introduces support for up to 10 secondary Region clusters

Amazon Aurora Global Database now supports adding up to 10 secondary Regions to your global cluster, further enhancing scalability and availability for globally distributed applications.

With Global Database, a single Aurora cluster can span multiple AWS Regions, providing disaster recovery from Region-wide outages and enabling fast local reads for globally distributed applications. This launch increases the number of secondary Regions that can be added to a global cluster from the previously supported limit of up to 5 secondary Regions to up to 10 secondary Regions, providing a larger global footprint for operating your applications See documentation to learn more about Global Database.

Amazon Aurora combines the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. To get started with Amazon Aurora, take a look at our getting started page.