Mastering Amazon Aurora: Architecting Scalable, Highly Available Cloud Databases on AWS (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798316173099)

A comprehensive guide for architects and developers working with Amazon Aurora on AWS.

This book provides a deep technical understanding of Amazon Aurora, covering architecture, deployment strategies, operations, and performance optimization. Written for engineers, architects, and DevOps professionals, it offers practical insights, real-world use cases, and actionable best practices.

You'll explore how Aurora differs from traditional RDS engines, learn how to build scalable and highly available database clusters, and understand how to integrate Aurora into modern application stacks.

• Aurora architecture and storage engine internals

• High availability and failover strategies

• Aurora Global Database and cross-region replication

• Aurora Serverless v2 and auto scaling

• Performance tuning, monitoring, and cost management

• Deployment automation with AWS CLI, CloudFormation, and CDK

• Zero-ETL analytics with Amazon Redshift

• CI/CD workflows, schema versioning, and RDS Proxy integration

• Real-world patterns: multi-tenant SaaS, serverless systems, event-driven applications

• AWS Solutions Architects

• Backend and full-stack developers using Aurora in production

• DevOps engineers managing cloud-native database infrastructure

• Technical leads planning Aurora adoption or migration projects

Includes architecture diagrams, CLI references, troubleshooting tips, and a developer quick-start appendix.