Surviving the region you run in: failover on Aurora DSQL, and what the demo proves
The article discusses the concept of failover on Aurora DSQL and its application in building a region-survivable system. The system, called Quorum, is designed to survive a region loss and provides a live demonstration of the reference behavior with an incident-command product wrapped around it. The article explains how Quorum's failover layer works and what the live demo proves and does not prove.
- ▪A multi-region DSQL cluster in the US set is three regions: two full regions and a log-only witness in us-west-2.
- ▪Quorum is a Next.js app on Vercel that detects an unreachable region and routes writes and reads to the healthy endpoint.
- ▪The health panel is itself failover-protected and reads from the same database that survives the outage.
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| Publication time | Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:10:40 +0000 |
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