Amazon Aurora DSQL Change Data Capture Enables Real-Time Event Streaming

Aurora DSQL CDC streams database change events to Kinesis Data Streams to support event-driven applications and integrations.

By Amelia Ross · Editorial pseudonym · 2026-07-08 · 1 min read

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Retrospective edition: 2026-07-08. Source published: 2026-07-08. 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.

Amazon Aurora DSQL introduced general availability of change data capture (CDC), automatically capturing insert, update, and delete changes and streaming them to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. This facilitates real-time integration with event-driven architectures, data synchronization, and workflow triggers without managing infrastructure.

CDC supports use cases like synchronizing microservices data, triggering AWS Lambda, and delivering changes into S3, Redshift, or OpenSearch via Data Firehose. The feature is designed for minimal performance impact on the database and is available in all supported AWS Regions. Validation of zero impact or latency claims was not provided outside vendor documentation.

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Amazon Aurora DSQL change data capture (CDC) Is now generally available ↗

Source published 2026-07-08. 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.