Amazon Aurora Global Database for PostgreSQL now supports write forwarding
Amazon Aurora Global Database for PostgreSQL now lets you forward write requests from a secondary to a primary Region, simplifying writing from multiple Regions and making it easier to develop globally distributed applications. With this launch, write forwarding is now available on both Aurora Global Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Amazon Aurora Global Database for PostgreSQL now lets you forward write requests from a secondary to a primary Region, simplifying writing from multiple Regions and making it easier to develop globally distributed applications. With this launch, write forwarding is now available on both Aurora Global Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Amazon Aurora Global Database allows a single Aurora database to span multiple AWS Regions, providing disaster recovery from Region-wide outages and enabling fast local reads for globally distributed applications. With write forwarding, your applications can simply send both read and write requests to a reader in a secondary Region, and Global Database will take care of forwarding the write requests to the writer in the primary Region. You can also use different consistency levels that meet your application needs. Global Database write forwarding is supported on Aurora MySQL versions 2.08.1 or higher, and Aurora PostgreSQL versions 14.9, 15.4, or higher. You can enable the feature using the AWS Management Console, Command Line Interface (CLI), or RDS API by turning on the "enable global write forwarding" option. The feature is available in all AWS regions where Aurora Global Database for PostgreSQL is available. See our documentation to learn more.
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.