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Business continuity scenario, part 1

Business continuity scenario, part 1

- In this scenario, we are going to take a look at some requirements around business continuity, specifically disaster recovery for a multi-region implementation of a multi-tier application. Let's go ahead and take a look at the scenario itself. A company is currently serving a Java application from a single EC2 instance with Apache, MySQL, and hard-coded plain text database credentials, along with other plain text passwords and API keys on the local file system. The company is requiring new business continuity architecture to ensure failover to a different region with a recovery time objective of 30 minutes and a recovery point objective of five minutes. The proposal must meet the RTO and RPO requirements. What new infrastructure should be recommended for the application? So first, what questions do we ask ourselves? What services are appropriate for separating out those application tiers? What can be done to centralize the management of keys and credentials? And how can the…

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