Does Canton Support AWS Aurora?

Hi Team,

Understand that there is Daml-on-Aurora in place and Canton is currently supporting PostgreSQL & Oracle for HA setup, does Canton also support Aurora as it is PostgreSQL compatible.

If no, what is the limitation?

thanks,
Dorrit

Hi Dorrit,

In the FAQs, I read:

Q: What does “PostgreSQL compatible” mean?

Amazon Aurora is drop-in compatible with existing PostgreSQL open-source databases and adds support for new releases regularly. This means you can easily migrate PostgreSQL databases to and from Aurora using standard import/export tools or snapshots. It also means that most of the code, applications, drivers, and tools you already use with PostgreSQL databases today can be used with Aurora with little or no change.

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Modern Relational Database Service – Amazon Aurora FAQs – AWS

Find answers to frequently asked questions about Amazon Aurora, including distinctions between Aurora vs RDS and Aurora vs MySQL.

We have not yet had the opportunity to integration-test our db layer against Amazon Aurora. That means, we have not yet made the “little or no change” that is required to make it 100% work. You can try it out and maybe it works for a demo. But I wouldn’t use it in production.

If you need official support for Canton on Aurora, please reach out to the product team.

Best,
Matthias