i have followed this guid to create a read-only Aurora replication cluster to offload intense read queries without impacting the production database: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/AuroraMySQL.Replication.html#AuroraMySQL.Replication.MySQL

It is working for the most part. The primary instance is a very busy server, with lots and lots of writes every second. So it was odd to me as I was watching the SHOW SLAVE STATUS output that it suddenly. stopped with "Waiting for master to send event", the log positions did not change, and "seconds behind master" remained at zero. Then, exactly 1 minute later, the log positions started moving again, and "seconds behind master" jumped to 60 and slowly reduced back to zero; two minutes later, again, it pauses for a minute, and then catches up with the 60 second delay down to zero.

I did a lot of replication setups before my RDS days, this is the first time I've done a manual replication in Aurora. I've never seen anything like this before. Is it possible that there is a setting, maybe on the primary instance, that causes the bin log to pause for a minute every 2 minutes? Or something else I'm missing?

Thanks in advance for any help you all might have!