Question

A financial services company runs a production application backed by an Amazon Aurora MySQL-compatible cluster in us-east-1. The compliance team requires a disaster recovery solution in us-west-2 with an RPO of under 1 second and an RTO of a few minutes, with minimal impact on the primary database's write performance. Which approach best meets these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Configure an Aurora global database with a secondary cluster in us-west-2 and promote it during a regional outage.

Answer

Enable AWS Backup with cross-Region copy of Aurora snapshots on an hourly schedule and restore in us-west-2 when needed.

Answer

Create a cross-Region Aurora read replica in us-west-2 using standard binlog-based asynchronous replication.

Answer

Use Aurora Multi-AZ deployment with reader instances spread across three Availability Zones in us-east-1.