In this episode of Pithoracademy’s Deep Dive Podcast, we break down two essential AWS RDS features—Multi-AZ deployments and Read Replicas—that enable high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery in your cloud databases.

Both are powerful, but when should you use Multi-AZ and when should you use Read Replicas? This episode clears the confusion.

🎧 We covered:
🗄️ What are AWS RDS Multi-AZ and Read Replicas?
🧠 Core concepts: high availability, fault tolerance, and read scalability
❓ Why use Multi-AZ vs Read Replicas?
📌 Key differences: failover, replication, performance benefits
⚠️ Challenges of single-node RDS before these features
🔄 How Multi-AZ and Read Replicas work under the hood
🧪 Real-world use cases: production workloads, read-heavy apps, failover testing
✅ Best practices for architects and AWS engineers

🎯 Final takeaway: Learn when to choose Multi-AZ for resilience vs Read Replicas for scalability.

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