AWS Aurora + Postgresql

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-aurora-update-postgresql-compatibility/
+ comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072861

• RDS replicates to a standby instance + EBS. Aurora replicates to a special storage engine

FPGA on AWS

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/developer-preview-ec2-instances-f1-with-programmable-hardware/

• with Intel Broadwell processors, up to 976GB of memory, 4TB SSD, 1-8 FPGA
• several FPGA share the same memory address space (up to 12GB/sec in each direction)
• VHDL or Verilog + tools
• High Level Synthesis tools, including OpenCL to program FPGA