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Planning for high availability

Planning for high availability - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Planning for high availability

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- When it comes to planning for high availability, AWS offers a lot of different solutions to you just like it does in most of the other planning and design efforts. The first thing to consider is what is called a Multi-AZ Database. Now you will remember from other AWS learning that you have done, working with AWS over time that the availability zones are basically separate data centers that are within a region. So you've got a region and within the region you have different availability zones okay. So Multi-AZ is not multi-region necessarily, but it is multiple data centers within a region. High availability can be provided to AWS databases by using multiple availability zones. Keep in mind that a region is a geographic location like the Eastern US or the Western US or Asia and so forth. Now both can be used to distribute data to different physical locations. So I could for example, deploy my database in US East,…

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