We have budget for one resilience project this quarter. Today: the app runs across three availability zones, but the database is single-AZ, and our only recovery is a nightly backup in the same region. Option A: high availability, a Multi-AZ database with automatic failover, so…

Disaster Recovery
Resilience
PostgreSQL
AWS

PRPriya Raman4votes5comments933views2d ago

Continuous service ↔ Recovery capability

High availability (in-region redundancy) 50%Disaster recovery (cross-region recovery) 50%

10 engineers chose

Cloud

Multi-region vs single-region for a 12-person B2B SaaS

A big US prospect's security questionnaire asks: "Is the service deployed in multiple regions?" We run in one AWS region across three availability zones, with a 99.9% SLA. Going multi-region means data replication, a second deployment pipeline, and roughly double the…

Multi-region
AWS
Disaster Recovery

TBTom Becker7votes5comments1Kviews1w ago

Resilience ↔ Cost and complexity

Single region, multi-AZ 75%Multi-region 25%

8 engineers chose

High availability or disaster recovery: where to invest first?

Multi-region vs single-region for a 12-person B2B SaaS

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