A SysOps Administrator manages an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance in production. The database is accessed by several applications. The Administrator needs to ensure minimal downtime of the applications in the event the database suffers a failure. This change must not impact customer use during regular business hours. Which action will make the database MORE highly available?
A) Contact AWS Support to pre-warm the database to ensure that it can handle any unexpected spikes in traffic
B) Create a new Multi-AZ RDS DB instance. Migrate the data to the new DB instance and delete the old one
C) Create a read replica from the existing database outside of business hours
D) Modify the DB instance to outside of business hours be a Multi-AZ deployment

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Creating a new Multi-AZ RDS DB instance and migrating the data to the new instance will ensure that the database is highly available in the event of a failure. The old instance can then be deleted.

A SysOps Administrator Manages an Amazon RDS MySQL DB Instance