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A database for an eCommerce website was deployed on an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance with General Purpose SSD storage. The database was running performantly for several weeks until a peak shopping period when customers experienced slow performance and timeouts. Amazon CloudWatch metrics indicate that reads and writes to the DB instance were experiencing long response times. Metrics show that CPU utilization is <50%, plenty of available memory, and sufficient free storage space. There is no evidence of database connectivity issues in the application server logs. What could be the root cause of database performance issues?