Highlights from Peter DeSantis Keynote at re:Invent 2023
Tags: aws, news, database, cloud
Published: 2023-11-28 13:08:35

## Announcement – Amazon Aurora Limitless Database (currently in preview)
Aurora Limitless Database scales write throughput and storage capacity of your database beyond the limits of a single Aurora writer instance.   
### References:
* [https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-aurora-limitless-database/](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-aurora-limitless-database/)  
* [https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/join-the-preview-amazon-aurora-limitless-database/](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/join-the-preview-amazon-aurora-limitless-database/)  

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## Announcement – Amazon ElastiCache Serverless
ElastiCache Serverless constantly monitors your application’s memory, CPU, and network resource utilization and scales instantly to accommodate changes to the access patterns of workloads it serves.  
### References:
* [https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-elasticache-serverless/](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-elasticache-serverless/)  
* [https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/features/#Serverless](https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/features/#Serverless)  
* [https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-elasticache-serverless-for-redis-and-memcached-now-generally-available/](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-elasticache-serverless-for-redis-and-memcached-now-generally-available/)  

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## Announcement – Amazon Redshift Serverless with AI-driven scaling and optimizations (currently in preview)
With these new AI-driven scaling and optimizations, Amazon Redshift Serverless learns your workload patterns based on dimensions like query complexity and data volumes.  
### References:
* [https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-redshift-serverless-ai-driven-scaling-optimizations-preview/](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-redshift-serverless-ai-driven-scaling-optimizations-preview/)  
* [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/mgmt/serverless-capacity.html#serverless-auto-optimization](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/mgmt/serverless-capacity.html#serverless-auto-optimization)  

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The full keynote is available at: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJG6nmR7XxI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJG6nmR7XxI)   

### About the Author
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