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I have been using Amazon RDS MySQL for several years in many projects. One of the best points of using AWS RDS instead of running your instance on EC2 is maintenance and easy management. RDS Multi-AZ is a very good feature in RDS, when you run an instance in with Multi-AZ option, RDS automatically creates another instance in another Availability Zone and automatically replicates between them.

If the main instance encounters any problems or errors, you and your customer will not feel any service disruption as traffic will automatically be redirected to another instance until the master instance is recovered successfully. Also, Multi-AZ features are very useful when you want to upgrade your instance type (hardware resource). In this article, I want to talk about increasing your capacity when your business grows.

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