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The Four Disaster Recovery Strategies

Backup & Restore, Pilot Light, Warm Standby, and Multi-Site Active-Active — four progressively faster (and more expensive) ways to recover from a disaster.

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🎓 Learning objectives

  • Define RTO and RPO and explain why they drive DR strategy choice
  • Explain the four standard AWS DR strategies and their relative cost/speed tradeoffs
  • Match a business requirement to the appropriate DR strategy
  • Explain why DR strategy is a business decision, not purely a technical one

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