PostgreSQL at Amazon

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Timeline of AWS Postgres work: RDS launches 2009, Redshift (Postgres-based) in 2013, RDS for Postgres (9.3.2) follows, then Aurora for Postgres with compute/storage separation; Amazon migrates 7,500+ databases holding 75 petabytes off Oracle. AWS runs 92 extensions, has a contributors team of nine majors with seven committers, and pushes community releases (Postgres 17.4 rolled out across 114 AZs in 36 regions within hours). Ongoing work targets faster pg_upgrade, PG Vector scaling (1536-dim ≈ 6KB per vector), parallel index builds, and Aurora Distributed SQL preview.

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1. 0:00Introduction and thanks
2. 1:07PostgreSQL at Amazon origins
3. 3:13Migrating Amazon off Oracle
4. 6:22PostgreSQL extensions and updates
5. 8:12PostgreSQL contributors team
6. 9:39PostgreSQL 17 improvements
7. 10:45Future of PostgreSQL at AWS
8. 12:54Next generation hardware
9. 14:21PostgreSQL for AI workloads
10. 15:45PG Vector focus
11. 17:12Aurora DSQL preview

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