Amit Kumar
Senior Database Solutions Architect at AWS
Amit Kumar has been working on relational databases and large-scale data platforms for over 20 years and is currently a Senior Database Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), focused on RDS, Aurora, and PostgreSQL.
Amit has helped multiple enterprise customers modernize legacy database platforms, including large-scale migrations from on-premises commercial databases to open-source databases. His recent work includes distributed database architectures, high-throughput data migration frameworks and building cloud-native database solutions.
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Like all RDMS, PostgreSQL was originally designed as a database system for single-server deployments. The PostgreSQL rich ecosystem includes several extensions and features/functionality that enable PostgreSQL to run in a distributed configuration.
In this session we will dive deep into the PostgreSQL database implementation in a distributed configuration as we explore and discuss major clo...
Apr 22 2026