Backup and DR Strategies
This lesson focuses on some of the common disaster recovery strategies designed to help your organization recover from an incident that has affected your AWS environment. Adopting a DR strategy helps to reduce the impact on your organization following a disaster. You should always plan and prepare for the worst and design a business continuity plan that is appropriate for the systems that you will need to restore.
Learning Objectives
The objectives of this lesson are to provide you with an understanding of:
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
- Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
- DR strategies, including:
- Backup & Restore
- Pilot Light
- Warm Standby
- Multi-Site
Intended Audience
This lesson has been designed for architects who are responsible for designing a DR and business continuity strategy to help maintain a level of high availability within their infrastructure.
Prerequisites
As a prerequisite to this lesson, you should have a basic understanding of AWS VPC architecture.
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