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Cross-cloud disaster recovery strategies

Cross-cloud disaster recovery strategies

- [Narrator] Single cloud disaster recovery, although complicated is a lot more straightforward compared to cross-cloud disaster recovery. When dealing with a single-cloud provider, you leverage their built-in tools and services to create backups, snapshots, and replication strategies. However, relying on a single cloud provider can expose your application to the risk of vendor lock-in, service outages, or even region specific failures. This is where cross-cloud disaster recovery comes into play, providing a higher level of resilience by spreading the risk across multiple cloud providers. Implementing cross-cloud disaster recovery involves replicating your data and applications across different cloud environments. This ensures that if one cloud provider experiences an outage, your services can continue to operate from another provider. The main goal is to achieve high availability and full tolerance by diversifying the cloud infrastructure. For example, you may run your primary…

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