Marc Brooker

And really it is those kind of moments of change that bring with them the opportunity to build things and to recognize problems.

And so to pick one concretely, when I was working in the Lambda team in 2020, and I

I was talking to a lot of customers about, you know, they were super excited about building on serverless.

They were super excited about building on containers.

There had been this massive shift and what people were seeing then was, wow, I love these serverless products.

I love building this way, but the world of data and especially relational data doesn't fit super well into this paradigm, right?

These relational databases are still very serverful, you know, fantastically powerful products, but not kind of operationally the same.

And, you know, that thinking was, you know, just felt super important to me of like, wow, these customers have brought to me a gift of understanding something that's really important.

And so I joined the Aurora team.

We built Aurora serverless.

And then we built the SQL.

You know, we've been investing deeply across all of our database products to make them a better fit for these customers.

serverless and container workloads.

And

That is an example of a trend that was brought by a customer.

But then also these trends that have been driven by kind of architecture or by other things going on, right?

Faster networks, faster compute, faster connectivity.

And so one of the big technical trends in the database world right now is this sort of block storage becoming the

default backend, the default durability layer for databases of all kinds, from analytics workloads to online workloads.

And there's been this incredible explosion around that.