Posted On: Oct 28, 2024
The Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ deployments with readable standbys now supports using Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) for database authentication. With IAM support, you can now centrally manage access to your RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys along with other RDS deployments, instead of managing access individually. In addition, Amazon IAM eliminates the need for storing password-based login credentials in the database.
Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys is ideal when your workloads require lower write latency and more read capacity. This deployment option also supports minor version upgrades and system maintenance updates with typically less than one second of downtime when using Amazon RDS Proxy or open source tools such as Amazon Advanced JDBC Driver, PgBouncer, or ProxySQL.
To learn more, refer the Multi-AZ DB cluster deployments section in the Amazon RDS User Guide. For a full list of Amazon RDS Multi-AZ Deployments with two readable standbys Regional availability and supported engine versions, refer the Amazon RDS User Guide.
Create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployment with two readable standbys instance in few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console.