How would you answer an interview scenario involving Amazon RDS in AWS?

For an interview scenario involving Amazon RDS, I would first clarify the business goal, scale, constraints, and the failure or quality attribute the interviewer wants to explore. Amazon RDS is a managed relational database service supporting engines such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and SQL Server. In this scenario, for a high-traffic API, explain Multi-AZ, read replicas, backups, connection pooling, RDS Proxy, encryption, and recovery planning. For production, choose instance and storage based on workload, use Multi-AZ for availability, read replicas for read scaling, configure backups, monitor connections and slow queries, and use RDS Proxy when useful. I would then explain the main alternatives and tradeoffs, identify likely failure modes, and describe how I would validate the solution through testing, observability, security controls, and recovery or rollback planning.