A global ecommerce company runs critical workloads on AWS. The workloads use an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance configured for Multi-AZ. Customers report application timeouts during database failovers. The company needs a resilient solution to reduce failover time. Which solution meets these requirements?
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Correct answer: Create an Amazon RDS Proxy. Assign the proxy to the DB instance..
Why this is the answer
Creating an Amazon RDS Proxy is the correct solution because it pools and shares database connections, reducing the overhead of establishing new connections during a failover. When a Multi-AZ failover occurs, RDS Proxy automatically routes connections to the new primary instance, masking the failover from the application and significantly reducing failover time and application timeouts. Creating a read replica for the DB
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