AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 — Topic 1 Question 755

Question

A company’s data platform uses an Amazon Aurora MySQL database. The database has multiple read replicas and multiple DB instances across different Availability Zones. Users have recently reported errors from the database that indicate that there are too many connections. The company wants to reduce the failover time by 20% when a read replica is promoted to primary writer. Which solution will meet this requirement?

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: B. The correct answer is B. Option B: Use Amazon RDS Proxy in front of the Aurora database. Amazon Aurora is a high-performance managed relational database with built-in replication and failover. Amazon RDS Proxy pools and shares database connections to improve scalability and resilience. Amazon RDS is a managed relational database that handles patching, backups and failover.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 — Question 755