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title: "Discussion on \"Offloading Amazon RDS reads to read replicas\" | Hashnode"
description: "Discussion on \"Offloading Amazon RDS reads to read replicas\". Replicas benefit read-heavy workloads as they improve performance by minimizing the load on the primary database instance"
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# [Offloading Amazon RDS reads to read replicas](https://musonza.dev/offloading-amazon-rds-reads-to-read-replicas?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Replicas benefit read-heavy workloads as they improve performance by minimizing the load on the primary database instance

Nov 4, 2022 · 8 min read · musonza.dev  
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