Your customer has an application which writes and reads a lot of data from a database. The application is under stress due to heavy demand, and so is the database. Due to its stateless nature, the application is leveraging elasticity principles to scale, but the database is struggling to keep up. What are your options? Evaluate a higher machine specification for the database perhaps with more CPU and Memory Add a caching layer to cache frequently read data Split the database and manage more than one copy Increase the instance size of the application server