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Kate Gawron
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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
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Overview of the Amazon Aurora service

Amazon Aurora is a managed database service. This means that AWS offers a wrapper around a relational database that handles many of the functions normally carried out by a Database Administrator (DBA). Where Aurora differs from RDS is that Aurora always speeds up the database functionality, and it can run up to five times faster than a non-Aurora version of the same database. Aurora manages such fast speeds by using a distributed storage system to avoid bandwidth and disk-read bottlenecks. Aurora has many benefits compared to RDS:

  • Faster scaling: Aurora can almost instantly add additional read replicas whereas with RDS these can take some time to provision.
  • Read replicas: Aurora supports up to 15 replicas compared to five on RDS.
  • High durability: Aurora stores your data in six different locations across three Availability Zones (AZs) by default, so it has very high resilience as standard.
  • Rapid disaster recovery: Aurora can...
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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
Read more about Kate Gawron