You are a solutions architect working for a cosmetics company. your company has a busy magento online store that consists of a two-tier architecture. the web servers are behind an auto scaling group and the database is on a large msql instance. your store is having a black friday sale at the end of the week, and having reviewed the performance for the last sale you expect the site to start running very slowly during the peak load. you investigate and you determine that the database was struggling to keep up with the number of reads that the store was generating. how can you successfully scale this environment out so as to increase the speed of the site?

Aquatic marine stores company manufactures special metallic materials and decorative fittings for luxury yachts that require highly skilled labor. aquatic uses standard costs to prepare its flexible budget. for the first quarter of the year, direct materials and direct labor standards for one of their popular products were as follows: direct materials: 3 pounds per unit; $ 6 per pound direct labor: 4 hours per unit; $ 19 per hour during the first quarter, aquatic produced 5 comma 000 units of this product. actual direct materials and direct labor costs were $ 65 comma 000 and $ 330 comma 000, respectively. for the purpose of preparing the flexible budget, calculate the total standard direct materials cost at a production volume of 5 comma 000 units.