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SOA-C02 · Question #520
A company is running an ecommerce application on AWS. The application maintains many open but idle connections to an Amazon Aurora DB cluster. During times of peak usage, the database produces the…
The correct answer is B. Configure RDS Proxy. Update the application with the RDS Proxy endpoint. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/rds-proxy.howitworks.html
Submitted by tom_us· Mar 30, 2026Reliability and Business Continuity
Question
A company is running an ecommerce application on AWS. The application maintains many open but idle connections to an Amazon Aurora DB cluster. During times of peak usage, the database produces the following error message: "Too many connections." The database clients are also experiencing errors. Which solution will resolve these errors?
Options
- AIncrease the read capacity units (RCUs) and the write capacity units (WCUs) on the database.
- BConfigure RDS Proxy. Update the application with the RDS Proxy endpoint.
- CTurn on enhanced networking for the DB instances.
- DModify the DB cluster to use a burstable instance type.
How the community answered
(55 responses)- A9% (5)
- B73% (40)
- C4% (2)
- D15% (8)
Explanation
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/rds-proxy.howitworks.html
Topics
#RDS Proxy#Aurora#connection pooling#database connections
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