A reporting application runs heavy analytical queries against an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database. These queries are causing performance degradation for the main transactional web application. Which TWO actions should the solutions architect take to improve performance? (Select TWO.)

Answer options:

Enable Multi-AZ on the RDS instance.

Create an RDS Read Replica.

Point the reporting application to the Read Replica.

Migrate the database to Amazon DynamoDB.

Increase the instance size of the RDS database.

How to approach this question

Identify the need to offload read queries from the primary database.

Full Answer

Amazon RDS Read Replicas allow you to elastically scale out beyond the capacity constraints of a single DB instance for read-heavy database workloads. You must create the replica and update your reporting app to use the new endpoint.

Common mistakes

Thinking Multi-AZ standby instances can serve read traffic.

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