About
Shayon Sanyal is a Principal PostgreSQL Specialist Solutions Architect and a Subject Matter Expert for Amazon’s flagship relational database, Amazon Aurora. He brings over 15 years of experience managing relational databases and analytics workloads utilizing PostgreSQL.
Shayon enjoys building robust applications using PostgreSQL, taking advantage of its many features, from complex data types to its ability to stream logical changes. Shayon graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a M.S. in Information Systems Management.
Shayon Sanyal has presented the following presentations
Replacing Oracle’s Advanced Features in PostgreSQL: High Availability, Advanced Functions, and Extensibility
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Postgres Conference 2025
Who needs Oracle when you have PostgreSQL?
presented by Shayon Sanyal
Migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL often raises questions about replacing powerful Oracle features like Materialized Views, Flashback Queries, Virtual Columns, Oracle RAC, and PL/SQL Packages. While PostgreSQL doesn’t replicate these features identically, it offers robust alternatives that meet—and often exceed—Oracle’s capabilities.
This session will guide you through: - Replacing Oracle’...
more Wed 19 2025 Ops
Enhancing OLTP Systems with pgvector: Best Practices in Database Design
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Postgres Conference 2024
Generative AI and PostgreSQL
presented by Sundar Raghavan and Shayon Sanyal
The integration of pgvector into existing Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) systems represents a significant advancement in leveraging vector search capabilities within traditional database environments. This presentation is designed to educate database professionals on the thoughtful integration of pgvector into OLTP applications powered by PostgreSQL, ensuring enhanced functionalities with...
more Thu 18 2024 Dev
Using Global database in Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
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Silicon Valley 2022
Using Global database in Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
presented by Shayon Sanyal and Sukhpreet Bedi
An Amazon Aurora Global database is designed for globally distributed applications, allowing a single Amazon Aurora database to span multiple AWS Regions. It replicates your data with no impact on database performance, enables fast local reads with low latency in each Region, and provides disaster recovery (DR) from Region-wide outages. In this session, learn how to plan for cross-Region DR and...
more Fri 8 2022 AWS Data Day
Amazon Aurora Global Database Design Patterns for HA and DR
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Silicon Valley 2022
Amazon Aurora Global Database Design Patterns for HA and DR
presented by Shayon Sanyal
Amazon Aurora Global Database is designed for globally distributed applications, allowing a single Amazon Aurora database to span multiple AWS regions. It replicates your data with no impact on database performance, enables fast local reads with low latency in each region, and provides disaster recovery from region-wide outages. In this session, learn about the several use-cases and design patt...
more Fri 8 2022 AWS Data Day