Amazon Aurora Global Database

> Amazon Aurora Global Database is a feature that allows a single Amazon Aurora database to span multiple AWS regions. It replicates your data with no impact on database performance, enables fast local reads in each region with typical latency of less than a second, and provides disaster recovery from region-wide outages. In the unlikely event of a regional degradation or outage, a secondary region can be promoted to full read/write capabilities in less than 1 minute.

AWS continues to innovate consistently on Aurora. This is much more approachable and affordable than something like Spanner. Your app definitely needs to be modified to use it, and you need to seriously consider the 1-5s latency impact, but they really do take care of the most difficult parts for you.

My biggest beef is that all the new Aurora features (Serverless, Parallel Query, Global) are only available or MySQL 5.6, not 5.7. God knows how long it will be before they support 8.0