AWS Database Blog Local write forwarding with Amazon Aurora Applications designed in the cloud need to be able to scale. For stateless resources like application servers, this is a straightforward task and can be achieved by simply adding additional compute resources behind a load balancer. For stateful resources such as databases, scaling can be more challenging. With the release of Amazon Aurora
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