title: AWS Aurora: The MySQL server is running with the --read-only option so it cannot execute this statement
body: <p>I am getting this error when executing a <code>GRANT</code> statement on my Aurora DB instance in AWS:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>The MySQL server is running with the --read-only option so it cannot execute this statement</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>My user is not read-only though, so why is this happening?</p>