Claims platform: Regional recovery in minutes
Task 2.2: Design highly available and/or fault-tolerant architectures
QuestionWatch the method
Predict first. Then watch short phrases—not full sentences—drive the decision.
Scenario
A claims-processing platform for a regional insurer runs entirely in one AWS Region on EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon S3, and it has to keep accepting claims through a complete Regional outage.
The business has signed an RPO measured in seconds and an RTO measured in minutes, so the recovery Region has to answer live requests immediately rather than after a rebuild.
Finance approved continuous database replication and a small standing footprint in the second Region, but not a second full-size production fleet running all day.
The platform team already deploys with infrastructure as code and rehearses a failover every quarter, and it accepts that scaling the recovery Region up to full capacity is part of the cutover.
Question
Which disaster recovery strategy fits every stated objective at the approved cost?
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