Question

A financial services company is designing its BCDR strategy for a customer-facing transaction platform hosted in a single cloud region. Business leaders mandate a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of under 15 minutes and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of near-zero data loss, but they also want to avoid the full cost of duplicating the entire production environment continuously. Which cloud BCDR approach BEST meets these requirements?

Accepted Answer

A pilot light configuration where core databases replicate continuously to a second region while application servers remain switched off until failover

Answer

A backup-and-restore approach that stores nightly snapshots in a geographically separate object storage bucket

Answer

A hot site with a fully scaled, always-on duplicate of production running actively in a second region

Answer

A cold site that provisions all infrastructure from templates only after a disaster is declared