AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
High Availability and Multi-Region Design
Learn how to use multiple Availability Zones and multiple Regions to keep applications running through failures, and how high availability differs from disaster recovery.
Intermediate 16 minutes 5 Learning Objectives
- Define high availability and explain why single points of failure are a risk
- Explain how a Multi-AZ design protects against the loss of one data center
- Describe when a multi-Region design is needed and what it protects against
- Distinguish high availability from disaster recovery
- Compare active-passive and active-active multi-Region patterns