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Phase 6 · Database Services

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Database Replication & High Availability

Part of the Cloud Computing Roadmap.

Summary

Automatically maintaining synchronized copies of your database across zones or regions — Multi-AZ deployments provide automatic failover if the primary database instance fails.

How to Learn This

  • 1Enable a Multi-AZ (or equivalent) deployment on a sample managed database.
  • 2Learn the difference between synchronous replication (for HA) and asynchronous (often for read replicas).
  • 3Understand the trade-off between replication cost and the downtime risk it protects against.

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