Amazon RDS MySQL instance performs very slow

Question

I have published my website on Amazon EC2 (Singapore region) and I have used MySQL RDS instance for the data storage. Everything is working very fine except performance.

Answer 1

First i highly recommend to look over these queries using

SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST

You can read more about it on SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST

This will show you the time each query take.

Then you can use

EXPLAIN

You can read more about it on EXPLAIN

This will show you if you need some enhancement on your queries