A company is running a critical workload on an Amazon RDS DB instance. The company needs the DB instance to be highly available with a recovery time of less than 5 minutes. Which solution will meet these requirements?
- ACreate a read replica of the DB instance.
- BCreate a template of the DB instance by using AWS CloudFormation.
- CTake frequent snapshots of the DB instance. Store the snapshots in Amazon S3.
- DModify the DB instance to be a Multi-AZ deployment. (correct answer)
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The correct answer is D. Option D: Modify the DB instance to be a Multi-AZ deployment. By spanning multiple Availability Zones / adding redundancy, this option provides the high availability and resilience required.