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

RDS MySQL performance can be increased in following ways assuming the system has more read ratio:

1. Use Larger instance types, they come with better NW bandwidth. Example AWS Quadruple EXL comes with 1,000 Mbps bandwidth.
2. Use PIOPS storage you can extract 12,500 IOPS of 16KB from MySQL DB
3. If lots of read is performed, add one or more Read Replica's to increase read performance
4. Apply standard practices like: Tune the queries, apply the indexes etc