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Planning for the Worst-Case Scenario – Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Cloud environments are generally very reliable as they depend on CSPs with vast amounts of resources and infrastructure designed to ensure high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance. However, unforeseen events can still cause major disruptions, so having a business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plan is essential.

In this chapter, you will review the following:

  • BCDR – definitions, importance, and key concepts
  • BCDR strategies
  • Understanding an organization’s business requirements
  • Creation, implementation, and testing of BCDR plans

Ensuring business continuity (BC) and providing disaster recovery (DR) solutions are tasks you will likely encounter ...

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