RDS Multi-AZ DB Cluster

• RDS Multi-AZ DB cluster deployment is a high-availability deployment mode of RDS with two readable standby DB instances.
• RDS Multi-AZ DB cluster has a writer DB instance and two reader DB instances in three separate AZs in the same AWS Region.
• Multi-AZ DB clusters provide high availability, increased capacity for read workloads, and lower write latency when compared to Multi-AZ DB instance deployments.
• Multi-AZ DB clusters aren’t the same as Aurora DB clusters.
• Multi-AZ DB clusters are available only in some AWS Regions for now.

• With a Multi-AZ DB cluster, RDS replicates data from the writer DB instance to both of the reader DB instances using the DB engine’s native replication capabilities.
• When a change is made on the writer DB instance, it’s sent to each reader DB instance. Acknowledgment from at least one reader DB instance is required for a change to be committed.
• Reader DB instances act as automatic failover targets and also serve read traffic to increase application read throughput.
• If an outage occurs on the writer DB instance, RDS manages failover to one of the reader DB instances. RDS does this based on which reader DB instance has the most recent change record.
• Multi-AZ DB clusters typically have lower write latency when compared to Multi-AZ DB instance deployments.
• They also allow read-only workloads to run on reader DB instances.
• Supports two endpoints
  • Cluster or Writer endpoint connects to the writer DB instance of the DB cluster, which supports both read and write operations.
  • Reader endpoint connects to either of the two reader DB instances, which support only read operations.
  • Instance endpoint connects to a specific DB instance within a Multi-AZ DB cluster.

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