To protect against an entire regional outage, an architect decides to maintain a 'Pilot Light' DR strategy where the database is continuously replicated to a secondary region. Which AWS service facilitates this database replication for Amazon RDS?

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Correct Answer: Amazon RDS Cross-Region Read Replicas

Read replicas in a different region allow for a standby database that can be promoted quickly during a disaster....

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To protect against an entire regional outage, an architect decides to maintain a 'Pilot Light' DR strategy where the database is continuously replicated to a secondary region. Which AWS service facilitates this database replication for Amazon RDS?

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Amazon RDS Cross-Region Read Replicas

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Read replicas in a different region allow for a standby database that can be promoted quickly during a disaster.

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