October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
520 pages
13h 5m
English
To achieve high availability, we need to create a cluster that is made up of a primary instance and a Failover Replica in a secondary zone. When we make changes to the primary instance's data, it is copied onto the failover instance. This, of course, reduces any downtime caused by instance failure. We can see from the following diagram that replication between the primary and replica is semi-synchronous:

Our Failover Replica is configured in the same way as the primary instance, which means that all users, passwords, authorized applications, networking, and databases are the same.
A failover will occur when an instance becomes ...
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