04-08 Disaster Recovery Options
There are multiple options for recovery that trade cost vs time to recover.
| Backup & Restore | Pilot Light | Warm Standby | Multi-site Active/active |
|---|---|---|---|
| RPO/RTO ~ Hours | RPO/RTO ~ 10mins | RPO/RTO ~ minutes | RPO/RTO ~ Real-time |
| You backup your data and restore it to new infrastructure | Data is replicated to another region with minimal services running | Scaled down copy of your infrastructure running ready to scale up | Scaled up copy of your infrastructure in another region |
| • Lower priority use cases | • less stringent rpo | • business critical services | • zero downtime |
| • Restore data after event | • core services | • scale resources after event | • near zero loss |
| • deploy resources after event | • start & scale resources after event | • | • mission critical services |
| • cost $ | • cost $$ | • cost $$$ | • cost $$$$ |