Can read replicas be promoted to primary? When would you do this?

Question

Narendran Srinivasan · Accepted Answer

Yes , read replicas can be promoted to primary, usually during failover or disaster recovery. This is done to maintain availability if the primary database becomes unavailable or for scaling write operations.

Narendran Srinivasan · Answer

Yes , read replicas can be promoted to primary during failover, disaster recovery, or maintenance. This ensures availability if the original primary fails or to offload write operations temporarily.

Narendran Srinivasan · Answer

Yes, read replicas can be promoted to primary. You’d do this during primary DB failure, disaster recovery, or when scaling write capacity is needed.

Can read replicas be promoted to primary? When would you do this?

Ekasquest - Cloud Computing, DevOps & Tech Q&A Community available in

Ekasquest - Cloud Computing, DevOps & Tech Q&A Community available in