Question about Fleet's new feature to support MySQL read replicas. Can I spin up Fleet in a different region that only has access to a read-only database replica? Example architecture below for context:

AWS Ohio region:
- Fleet instances
- Aurora MySQL read/write
- Redis

AWS London:
- Fleet instances
- Aurora MySQL read-only replica
- Redis

yup, that's the way we do it

Excellent, thank you @Jocelyn Bothe

we have our writer in us-west-1 and then 5 readers each in us-east-1 and us-west-2

@Jocelyn Bothe same question but with Elasticache, specifically Redis.

we use redis global with primary in us-west-2 and the secondary in us-east-1, but that's just for redundancy, there's no read replica config for redis

The operation of a Fleet server that has access to only a read replica is going to be very limited. For example, hosts are not going to be able to write updates and users will only be able to continue using existing sessions, not logging in for new ones. I think what @Jocelyn Bothe is describing is writer/readers in different regions, but not Fleet servers attached in different regions as described in the original comment.

ah yes, every region is talking to the same writer