As part of the [High Availability architecture](./sql-database-high-availability.md#premium-and-business-critical-service-tier-availability), each database in the Premium, Business Critical or Hyperscale service tier is automatically provisioned with a primary replica and several secondary replicas. The secondary replicas are provisioned with the same compute size as the primary replica. The **Read Scale-Out** feature allows you to load-balance SQL Database read-only workloads using the capacity of one of the read-only replicas instead of sharing the read-write replica. This way the read-only workload will be isolated from the main read-write workload and will not affect its performance. The feature is intended for the applications that include logically separated read-only workloads, such as analytics. They could gain performance benefits using this additional capacity at no extra cost.
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