Which solution will improve the website’s performance?

A company’s website is using an Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance for its transactional data storage.

There are other internal systems that query this DB instance to fetch data for internal batch processing. The RDS DB instance slows down significantly the internal systems fetch data. This impacts the website’s read and write performance, and the users experience slow response times.

Which solution will improve the website’s performance?
A . Use an RDS PostgreSQL DB instance instead of a MySQL database.
B . Use Amazon ElastiCache to cache the query responses for the website.
C . Add an additional Availability Zone to the current RDS MySQL Multi.AZ DB instance.
D . Add a read replica to the RDS DB instance and configure the internal systems to query the read replica.

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Answer: D

Explanation:

Amazon RDS Read Replicas

Enhanced performance

You can reduce the load on your source DB instance by routing read queries from your applications to the read replica. Read replicas allow you to elastically scale out beyond the capacity constraints of a single DB instance for read-heavy database workloads. Because read replicas can be promoted to master status, they are useful as part of a sharding implementation.

To further maximize read performance, Amazon RDS for MySQL allows you to add table indexes directly to Read Replicas, without those indexes being present on the master.

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/features/read-replicas/