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Max Winter

Author: Max Winter

Max Winter is a Senior Software Architect for AWS' Financial Services clients. He works with ISV customers to design solutions that allow them to leverage the power of AWS services to automate and optimize their business. In his free time, he loves hiking and biking with his family, music and theater, digital photography, 3D modeling, and imparting a love of science and reading to his two nearly-teenagers.

How a large financial AWS customer implemented high availability and fast disaster recovery for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL using Global Database and Amazon RDS Proxy

In this post, we show how a large financial AWS customer achieved sub-minute failover between Availability Zones and single-digit minutes between AWS Regions. The customer partnered with AWS to engineer a solution to provide high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) for their wealth management customer portal. The goals of the design were to minimize […]