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Why a Major Cable Co. Switched from Amazon Aurora to CockroachDB
Blog post from Cockroach Labs
Post Details
Company
Date Published
Author
Charlotte Dillon
Word Count
273
Language
English
Hacker News Points
3
Summary
A major cable company initially built a virtual customer support agent on Amazon Aurora, but faced issues due to its single-master architecture and vulnerability to failures. The company sought a new database with always-on availability, strong consistency, and low-latency reads. They switched to CockroachDB for its resiliency, consistency, and low-latency reads, resulting in a multi-region deployment that can survive datacenter failures.