>> RDS does not support a hot standby replica you can use for read-only queries This is not true anymore. I set up two read-only RDS replicas, one in a differ

>> RDS does not support a hot standby replica you can use for read-only queries This is not true anymore. I set up two read-only RDS replicas, one in a different AWS region, and another in the same region, for read-only queries, just by clicking in AWS console.