Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases Alexandre Verbitski, Anurag Gupta, Debanjan Saha, Murali Brahmadesam, Kamal Gupta, Raman Mittal, Sailesh Krishnamurthy, Sandor Maurice, Tengiz Kharatishvili, Xiaofeng Bao Amazon Web Services ABSTRACT Amazon Aurora is a relational database service for OLTP workloads offered as part of Amazon Web Services (AWS