This course looks at how you can use Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) to determine an AWS disaster recovery strategy. RTO and RPO both fall under the Reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
Learning Objectives
- The difference between RTO and RPO
- How to classify your RTO and RPO
- An understanding of 4 recovery strategies, including:
- Backup & Restore
- Pilot Light
- Warm Standby
- Multi-Site Active/Active
Intended Audience
- Those who are in a role of an AWS site reliability engineer (SRE)
- Anyone who has a responsibility for and input into maintaining an effective business continuity and/or disaster recovery strategy for your AWS environment
Prerequisites
- You should have a basic understanding of the AWS global architecture and understand the concepts and importance of building high availability into your infrastructure.
Hello and welcome to this course where I shall be looking at how we can use Recovery Time Objective (RTO), and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) to determine our AWS disaster recovery strategy. RTO and RPO both fall under the Reliability pillar of the AWS well-architected framework.
My name is Stuart Scott, and I am the AWS content Director here at Cloud Academy. Feel free to connect with me to ask any questions using the details shown on the screen, alternatively you can always get in touch with us here at Cloud Academy by sending an e-mail to support@cloudacademy.com where one of our Cloud experts will reply to your question.
This course has been created for those who are in a role of an AWS site reliability engineer (SRE), or for anyone who has a responsibility for and input into maintaining an effective business continuity and/or disaster recovery strategy for your AWS environment.
By the end of this course you will have a greater understanding of:
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The difference between RTO and RPO
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How to classify your RTO and RPO
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An understanding of 4 recovery strategies, including:
As a prerequisite, you should have a basic understanding of the AWS global architecture and understand the concepts and importance of building high availability into your infrastructure.
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Stuart has been working within the IT industry for two decades covering a huge range of topic areas and technologies, from data center and network infrastructure design, to cloud architecture and implementation.
To date, Stuart has created 150+ courses relating to Cloud reaching over 180,000 students, mostly within the AWS category and with a heavy focus on security and compliance.
Stuart is a member of the AWS Community Builders Program for his contributions towards AWS.
He is AWS certified and accredited in addition to being a published author covering topics across the AWS landscape.
In January 2016 Stuart was awarded ‘Expert of the Year Award 2015’ from Experts Exchange for his knowledge share within cloud services to the community.
Stuart enjoys writing about cloud technologies and you will find many of his articles within our blog pages.