As businesses expand, they use more and more data to make critical decisions. With increasing amounts of data, it is important to optimize database performance and stabilize it during system changes. Highly transactional workloads, such as those involving financial transactions or customer orders, require stable, consistent, and fast performance because poor performance can affect customer satisfaction and business revenue. For databases that handle these highly transactional workloads, such as Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition database instances, it is critical that you understand and implement the available performance-optimization features.

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