Shaily Porwal
Senior Technical Account Manager at AWS
Shaily Porwal is a Senior Technical Account Manager at Amazon Web Services, specializing in Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. With over 18 years of experience in open-source database solutions, she serves as a trusted advisor to enterprise customers on PostgreSQL operational excellence, performance optimization, and database best practices. As an expert member of the Database Technical Field Community, Shaily mentors Technical Account Managers and leads initiatives including the PostgreSQL Upgrade program. She specializes in complex database migrations, major version upgrades, and architecting scalable PostgreSQL solutions integrated with AI/ML workloads.
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Past presentations
Autonomous PostgreSQL: When AI Agents Become Your DBA
Automating Health Checks, Parameter Tuning, and Index Management with MCP Servers and pgvector
PostgreSQL operations are evolving from reactive monitoring to autonomous, AI-powered management. Drawing from my experience with dozens of customers at AWS, this session demonstrates how agentic AI leveraging MCP servers can automate routine DBA tasks: running comprehensive health checks, tuning database parameters based on workload patterns, and identifying and removing duplicate or unused in...
Apr 21 2026
The Elephant in the Room: Tackling PostgreSQL Major Version Upgrades Head-On
A Complete Guide to Planning, Testing, and Executing PostgreSQL Upgrades
PostgreSQL major version upgrades remain a critical challenge many organizations postpone until deadlines force action. This session confronts upgrade anxiety head-on by examining proven strategies including in-place upgrades, Blue/Green deployments, and logical replication approaches. Drawing from my experience with hundreds of customers at AWS, we'll explore upgrade options with their trade-o...
Apr 21 2026