AWS has always been a strong proponent of “the right tool for the right job”, specially for databases, as the then-CEO Jeff Bezos published in 2018 in his annual letter to shareholders.
As a result of this philosophy, AWS has as of today 11 types of database types (some of them covering multiple technologies/variants).
However, latest trends may be pointing to a weakening of this strategy. Consolidation on a smaller number of database technologies seems to be starting. With a clear protagonist in the crime scene.
AWS Data Hero Álvaro Hernández will try to be the Oracle (no pun intended) that disentangles the future of AWS Databases.
This talk was delivered at the AWS Community Day Spain 2024 (https://2024.awscommunity.es/en/speakers/alvaro-hernandez).