Last week we kicked off a series covering the (data/storage/network) announcements that, in my view, had the most impact. This week I'm bringing 5 more recent launches to run through the fine-tooth comb. Description, the pain point it solved, and my critical take on each one.
1. Aurora DSQL lands in five more regions
What it is: Aurora DSQL, AWS's distributed, serverless SQL database, is now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Europe (Stockholm), and South America (São Paulo). With this launch, it now covers 19 regions total.
Official link: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/amazon-aurora-dsql-five-additional-aws-regions/
How it used to be (the pain point): Until now, if you wanted to run Aurora DSQL with decent latency for users in Brazil, there was no regional option here. You either accepted the latency of hitting us-east-1 (an ugly phrase for a transactional application to hear) or gave up on DSQL entirely and went with a traditional Aurora PostgreSQL, purely for geographic proximity.
