Question

How do you configure a Multi-AZ RDS instance?

Answer 1

When creating an RDS instance through the console, you can select the "Multi-AZ deployment" option. Alternatively, you can use the AWS CLI:

aws rds create-db-instance \
    --db-instance-identifier mydbinstance \
    --db-instance-class db.m5.large \
    --engine mysql \
    --master-username admin \
    --master-user-password password \
    --allocated-storage 20 \
    --multi-az