You need to scale an RDS deployment. You are operating at 10% writes and 90% reads, based on your logging. How best can you scale this in a simple way?
A) Create a second master RDS instance and peer the RDS groups.
B) Cache all the database responses on the read side with CloudFront.
C) Create read replicas for RDS since the load is mostly reads.
D) Create a Multi-AZ RDS installs and route read traffic to standby.

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Creating read replicas for RDS is an effective way to scale read-heavy workloads, as it allows you to distribute read traffic across multiple instances.

You Need to Scale an RDS Deployment