AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 Practice Question
An online retail application experiences unpredictably variable workloads, resulting in sporadic bursts of concurrent connections to its relational database. The application runs on a fleet of instances which autoscale according to demand. Which is the most effective solution to manage these connection bursts while maintaining optimal database performance?
Increase the database instance size to accommodate more connections.
Incorporate a managed database connection pooler to efficiently handle the surges in traffic.
Configure a buffering layer with a message queue to manage incoming requests.
Scale the database by adding more read replicas to distribute the traffic.