A global company is creating an application. The application must be highly available. The company requires an RTO and an RPO of less than 5 minutes. The company needs a database that will provide…

Amazon RDS with cross-Region read replicas primarily offers read scaling and disaster recovery, but the replicas are read-only, preventing an active-active write configuration across regions.

Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployment provides high availability and automatic failover *within a single AWS Region*, not across multiple Regions for active-active synchronization.

Amazon DynamoDB global tables provide a fully managed, multi-Region, active-active database that allows applications to read and write data in multiple AWS Regions simultaneously. It automatically replicates data changes across all specified Regions with near real-time consistency, which directly addresses the requirement for active-active configuration and cross-Region synchronization with low RTO/RPO.

A global secondary index (GSI) is a feature for querying data within a single DynamoDB table on non-primary key attributes; it does not provide multi-Region replication or active-active capabilities.