Design a cloud database write path and recovery
Company: Amazon
Role: Software Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: hard
Interview Round: Technical Screen
Overview: This question evaluates expertise in designing transactional write paths and crash recovery for cloud-native relational databases that separate compute from durable distributed storage, focusing on durability guarantees, commit protocols, replication and quorum rules, crash recovery mechanisms, write amplification, scalability, and observability.
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