Disaster Recovery & Migrations

Question 1

RPO

Answer 1

The time between the last backup and the time of the disaster which results in a data loss

Question 2

RTO

Answer 2

The time between the disaster the recovery of the disaster

Question 3

Backup and Restore

Answer 3

High RPO - Long time in between backups

Question 4

Pilot Light

Answer 4

A small version of the app is always running in the cloud

- faster RTO than Backup and Restore

Question 5

Warm Standby

Answer 5

Full system is up and running, but at minimum size which scales up to production load when needed

Question 6

Multi Site / Hot Site

Answer 6

Full Production Scale is running AWS and On Premise

- very low RTO (very expensive)

Question 7

DMS

Answer 7

Database Migration Service - securely migrate databases to AWS, resilient, self healing

Question 8

Schema ConversionTool (SCT)

Answer 8

Convert your Database’s Schema from one engine to another e.g. SQL Server to PostgresSQL

Question 9

DataSync

Answer 9

Move large amount of data from on- premise to AWS targeted towards files systems