An application allows users at a company's headquarters to access product data. The product data is stored in an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance. The operations team has isolated an application performance slowdown and wants to separate read traffic from write traffic. A solutions architect needs to optimize the application's performance quickly. What should the solutions architect recommend?

• AChange the existing database to a Multi-AZ deployment. Serve the read requests from the primary Availability Zone.
• BChange the existing database to a Multi-AZ deployment. Serve the read requests from the secondary Availability Zone.
• CCreate read replicas for the database. Configure the read replicas with half of the compute and storage resources as the source database.
• DCreate read replicas for the database. Configure the read replicas with the same compute and storage resources as the source database.