Amazon Aurora DSQL Adds Preview Support for Change Data Capture Streaming

Amazon Aurora DSQL introduced a preview feature enabling change data capture (CDC) to stream real-time database changes directly to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, facilitating event-driven applications and analytics.

By Ethan Blake · Editorial pseudonym · 2026-05-19 · 1 min read

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Retrospective edition: 2026-05-19. Source published: 2026-05-14. Added to this archive: 2026-11-03. This briefing was prepared later from the linked announcement; it was not published on this website on the historical edition date.

The CDC feature in Aurora DSQL captures insert, update, and delete operations as change events, which can be streamed with no impact on database performance. This eliminates the need for custom streaming pipelines, allowing synchronization across microservices and integration with AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Redshift, and OpenSearch through Data Firehose.

CDC streaming is fully managed, requires no infrastructure setup, and is billed based on captured data volume and standard Kinesis pricing. Available in all AWS regions supporting Aurora DSQL, the feature targets real-time data replication and analytics workloads, although it was at preview stage at the time of announcement.

Source & further reading

Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports change data capture (Preview) ↗

Source published 2026-05-14. This report was prepared with AI assistance from the linked primary-source material. Claims and limitations should be checked against the original announcement or research.