An Online Shopping Application Accesses an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB

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Multiple Choice

An online shopping application accesses an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instance. Database performance is slowing down the application. After upgrading to the next-generation instance type, there was no significant performance improvement. Analysis shows approximately 700 IOPS are sustained, common queries run for long durations and memory utilization is high. Which application change should a solutions architect recommend to resolve these issues?

• A) Migrate the RDS instance to an Amazon Redshift cluster and enable weekly garbage collection.
• B) Separate the long-running queries into a new Multi-AZ RDS database and modify the application to query whichever database is needed.
• C) Deploy a two-node Amazon ElastiCache cluster and modify the application to query the cluster first and query the database only if needed.
• D) Create an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queue for common queries and query it first and query the database only if needed.

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