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I think it's still an important clarification, because for years you've had a choice in RDS (classic RDS, not Aurora) between "single-AZ" and "multi-AZ" instances, with the general rule of thumb that production workloads should always be multi-AZ.

however, "multi-AZ" has been made ambiguous, because there are now multi-AZ instances and multi-AZ clusters.

...and your multi-AZ "instance", despite being not a multi-AZ "cluster" from AWS's perspective, is still two nodes that are "clustered" together and treated as one logical database from the client connection perspective.

see [0] and scroll down to the "availability and durability" screenshot for an example.

0: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-rds-multi-az-db-clus...



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