AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) — Question 200

A company is running a batch application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application consists of a backend with multiple Amazon RDS databases. The application is causing a high number of reads on the databases. A solutions architect must reduce the number of database reads while ensuring high availability.

What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

Answer options

Correct answer: A

Explanation

Adding Amazon RDS read replicas is the correct approach as it allows for distributing read traffic across multiple replicas, effectively reducing the load on the primary database. The other options, while useful for caching and performance improvement, do not specifically address the need to reduce database reads in this context.