Is there a way to achieve Workload Management in MySQL?

Question

Is there a way to set up Workload Management in MySQL (in particular v5.5 on AWS RDS)?

By Workload Management I mean the functionality implemented in e.g. Teradata, RedShift that allows prioritization of queries. In particular, I want to give high priority to tactical, short running queries from applications and give low priority to longer running background queries.