An organization wants to implement 'Zero-Downtime' updates for their Amazon RDS instances during maintenance windows. They want to ensure that the standby instance takes over with minimal interruption. Which RDS feature should they enable?

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Correct Answer: RDS Multi-AZ with readable standbys (Cluster)

Multi-AZ clusters provide three instances across three AZs, with faster failovers and readable standby instances....

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An organization wants to implement 'Zero-Downtime' updates for their Amazon RDS instances during maintenance windows. They want to ensure that the standby instance takes over with minimal interruption. Which RDS feature should they enable?

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RDS Multi-AZ with readable standbys (Cluster)

Why This Answer Is Correct

Multi-AZ clusters provide three instances across three AZs, with faster failovers and readable standby instances.

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