Has anyone figured out how to scale Amazon RDS read replicas?

Question

I\'ve recently set up a read replica to take some of the read load off of my Amazon multi-AZ RDS instance. The Amazon documentation clearly states that it is \"up to your appli

Answer 1

I'd like to suggest more convience approach.
Which is, DNS Round-robin with Amazon Route 53.

As you can see in the this article,
Amazon Route 53 can do Round-robin with multiple CNAMEs.

Then all you need to do is

1. "Creating Record Sets" at Route 53.
2. Update your config file of your application.

In my case, this approach works fine.