AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 Practice Question

To enhance the database's ability to manage increased data read requests, creating read replicas is the most effective solution. Read replicas allow you to scale out read-heavy workloads by distributing read traffic across multiple replica databases, reducing the load on the primary database. Upgrading the database instance to a larger class provides more resources but it may not suffice for significant increases in read traffic and requires continuous monitoring. Implementing a Multi-AZ deployment improves availability and failover capabilities but does not enhance read performance, as the standby instance cannot serve read traffic. Using a database proxy helps manage connections but does not specifically address scaling read operations.