Amazon RDS PostgreSQL: Enabling Innovation with Cloud Managed Databases

Whether you are building a new application, refactoring an existing one or working on the next big startup, you want to focus on your application and your business and not on time consuming database administration tasks. In this session we will cover how a managed relational database service offloads the undifferentiated heavy lifting around High Availability, DR, Security, Backup/Recovery and Patching while improving your ability to innovate using the capabilities of the PostgreSQL database. We will also dive into the recent changes to the service including support for logical replication and 9.6 as well as lessons learned running a large fleet of PostgreSQL instances.