They recently announced readable standby instances. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/readable-standby-instances-in-amazon-rds-multi-az-deployments-a-new-h

They recently announced readable standby instances. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/readable-standby-instances-in-amazon-rds-multi-az-deployments-a-new-high-availability-option/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/readable-standby-insta...