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High availability and failover for a primary-replica database

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AmazonSystem designLast asked Jun 2026

Explain how to keep a primary-replica database available: how replication works, how a failed primary is detected, how a replica is promoted, and how you avoid losing writes or ending up with two primaries during failover.

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