An application allows users at a company's headquarters to access product data stored in an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance. The operations team identified an application performance slowdown and wants to separate read traffic from write traffic. A solutions architect must quickly optimize the application's performance. What should the solutions architect recommend?

Creating read replicas for the database is the correct solution because it offloads read traffic from the primary DB instance, directly addressing the performance slowdown caused by combined read/write operations. Configuring read replicas with the same compute and storage resources as the source database ensures they can handle the read workload effectively without becoming a new bottleneck. Changing to a Multi-AZ deployment (options A and B) primarily enhances availability and durability by providing a standby instance in another AZ. While it improves fault tolerance, it does not separate read and write traffic or directly improve read performance for the primary instance, as the