Amazon RDS for Oracle now provides an automatic reconnection mechanism for applications to failover to a read replica promoted as the new primary database during a disaster recovery scenario, reducing recovery time and effort.

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<p>This article discusses automatic reconnection to Amazon RDS for Oracle read replicas during disaster recovery scenarios like failover or switchover.</p>
<p>Specifically, the article covers:</p>
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<li>Solution overview and prerequisites</li>
<li>Steps to implement automatic reconnection by creating an Oracle service and trigger</li>
<li>Testing the solution with managed Oracle Data Guard switchover</li>
<li>Manually promoting a read replica to primary</li>
<li>Handling errors and cleaning up resources</li>
<li>Advantages of using this approach with Amazon RDS for Oracle</li>
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Automatic reconnection to Amazon RDS for Oracle read replicas during disaster recovery

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