During a high traffic portion of the day, one of your relational databases crashes, but the replica is never promoted to a master. You want to avoid this in the future. What should you do?

The correct answer is D. Implement routinely scheduled failovers of your databases. Regardless of the size of the database, when it reaches its limit, the replica will not be promoted. Implementing failover routines/plans seems to me to be more suitable.

Submitted by rohit_dlh· Mar 30, 2026Ensuring solution and operations reliability

Question

During a high traffic portion of the day, one of your relational databases crashes, but the replica is never promoted to a master. You want to avoid this in the future. What should you do?

Options

AUse a different database.
BChoose larger instances for your database.
CCreate snapshots of your database more regularly.
DImplement routinely scheduled failovers of your databases.

How the community answered

(34 responses)

A
6% (2)
B
12% (4)
C
6% (2)
D
76% (26)

Explanation

Regardless of the size of the database, when it reaches its limit, the replica will not be promoted. Implementing failover routines/plans seems to me to be more suitable.

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#database failover#high availability#replica promotion#disaster recovery

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