
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports read and mounted replicas for single-tenant multitenant container database instances, enabling read workload scaling and improved availability across AWS regions.


<div><p>This article announces that Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports read and mounted replicas for single-tenant multitenant container database (CDB) instances.</p><ul><li>Read replicas use Oracle Active Data Guard to offload read workloads from primary instances</li><li>Mounted replicas available without Active Data Guard licensing requirement</li><li>Replicas can be created in same or different AWS regions</li><li>Up to five read replicas supported per primary instance</li><li>Replicas can be promoted to standalone databases for disaster recovery</li><li>Data Guard Switchover supported for disaster recovery testing</li><li>Available for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition versions 19c and 21c</li><li>Read replicas billed at standard DB instance rates</li></ul><p>RDS for Oracle customers can now use replicas to improve availability, scale read workloads, and simplify disaster recovery operations.</p></div>


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