Creating an RDS database read replica

This recipe will show you how to create an RDS read replica. You can use read replicas to increase the performance of your application by off-loading database reads to a separate database instance. You can provision up to five read replicas per source DB.

Getting ready

You will need an RDS DB deployed with backup retention enabled. We are going to build upon the DB deployed in the previous recipe.

You're going to need the following values:

• The identifier for your source RDS instance, for example, eexocwv5k5kv5z
• A unique identifier for the read replica we're going to create, for example, read-replica-1

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