From the course: Cloud Computing: BC/DR Best Practices
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Understanding BC/DR requirements
From the course: Cloud Computing: BC/DR Best Practices
Understanding BC/DR requirements
- [Illustrator] So let's take a look at how we determine requirements in terms of business continuity in disaster recovery in the Cloud. So a few key metrics are important. First, is a recovery time objective or RTO? And this is the maximum amount of time where your application workload can be offline or unavailable. So we need to figure out service level agreements to make sure that we're going to live up to a certain objective, so that if there is an outage that the application can only be offline for a specific amount of time, because after that, we get to our maximum RTO, it's going to provide us with an economic disadvantage. Next are the recovery point objective or RPO. And this is really the maximum length of time during which data is unavailable due to some sort of an incident. So in other words, we have applications that go down and we have information that goes down. And keep in mind, there's typically a one to…
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