Please note that this course has been replaced with a new version that can be found here: https://cloudacademy.com/course/high-availability-saa-c03/high-availability-saa-c03-introduction/
This section of the Solution Architect Associate learning path introduces you to the High Availability concepts and services relevant to the SAA-C02 exam. By the end of this section, you will be familiar with the design options available and know how to select and apply AWS services to meet specific availability scenarios relevant to the Solution Architect Associate exam.
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Learning Objectives
- Learn the fundamentals of high availability, fault tolerance, and back up and disaster recovery
- Understand how a variety of Amazon services such as S3, Snowball, and Storage Gateway can be used for back up purposes
- Learn how to implement high availability practices in Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, and DynamoDB
Point In Time Recovery or PITR - is an enhanced version of the on-demand backup and restore feature, providing you with the ability to perform point in time recoveries. This feature is extremely handy in situations when you’re modifying data and want a safety net in place for the situation where your data modifications didn’t result in the way they should have. With PITR in place, you can simply restore back to a specific time. PITR takes the burden away of having to plan backup schedules, etc.
Point In Time Recovery operates at the table level, and when enabled provides you with the ability to perform a point in time recovery for any time between the current time and the last 35 days. This feature needs to be enabled as it is disabled by default. Once enabled you can request a recovery by specifying a date and time with second precision or granularity. The restoration will always be performed into a new table - of which you specify the new table name at time of restoration request. Table restoration can be performed in the same region as the original table, or into a different region altogether.
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