What’s New at AWS for 2022 — Introduction to Readable Standby Instances in RDS

Just before the festive mood for Christmas 2021, AWS has announced readable standby instances in Amazon RDS multi-AZ deployments

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Amazon RDS now offers Multi-AZ deployments with readable standby instances (also called Multi-AZ DB cluster deployments) in preview. To know what is Amazon RDS, check out this documentation or AWS’s YouTube video on it:

Ok, What Was The Problem Statement?

Amazon RDS makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud.

It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups.

This allows you to focus on your applications so you can give them the fast performance, high availability, security, and compatibility they need. Relational databases are at the heart of many types of…