Read/Write Splitting

For RDS for MySQL and RDS for PostgreSQL, the primary DB instances and read replicas have independent connection addresses. A maximum of five read replicas can be created for each RDS for MySQL or RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance. For details about how to create a read replica, see Creating a Read Replica and Managing a Read Replica.

To offload read pressure on the primary DB instance, you can create one or more read replicas in the same region as the primary instance. These read replicas can process a large number of read requests and increase application throughput. You need to separately configure connection addresses for the primary DB instance and each read replica on your applications so that all read requests can be sent to read replicas and write requests to the primary DB instance.