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About the Authors Wendy A. Neu is a principal consultant with AWS Professional Services working on customers' most difficult problems, building high-quality, scalable, and architecturally sound systems. She is a regular contributor to the AWS Database Blog and is certified in AWS, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server. Prior to joining Amazon, she worked as a consultant in Cincinnati, OH, helping customers translate business needs into workable technology solutions. Vlad Vlasceanu is a principal DB specialist solutions architect at AWS, based out of the Santa Monica, California office. Vlad helps customers adopt cloud native database solutions, like Amazon Aurora, and deploy large-scale, high-performance database architec‐ tures on AWS. His focus is on designing and implementing sustain‐ able, cost-effective, and scalable database workloads that take advantage of the latest best practices and capabilities that the AWS platform offers. Prior to joining AWS, Vlad's career included more than 15 years of designing and developing both consumer focused web-based applications as well as data-driven applications for the energy industry. Vlad holds a Master of Science in Information Sys‐ tems from Baylor University. Andy Oram brought to publication O'Reilly's Linux series, the groundbreaking book Peer-to-Peer, and the best seller Beautiful Code. Andy has also authored many reports on technical topics such as data lakes, web performance, and open source software. His arti‐ cles have appeared in e Economist, Communications of the ACM, Copyright World, the Journal of Information Technology and Politics, Vanguardia Dossier, and Internet Law and Business. Conferences where he has presented talks include O'Reilly's Open Source Con‐ vention, FISL (Brazil), FOSDEM, DebConf, and LibrePlanet. Andy participates in the Association for Computing Machinery's policy organization, USTPC. He also writes for various websites about health IT and about issues in computing and policy. Sam R. Alapati is a data administrator at Solera Holdings in West‐ lake, Texas. He is part of the Big Data and Hadoop team. Sam is an Oracle ACE, a recognition conferred by Oracle Technology Net‐ work. He is the author of Modern Linux Administration (O'Reilly, 2018) as well as more than 20 database and system administration