What is the primary difference between High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR)?

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HA focuses on keeping services running during localized failures, while DR focuses on restoring services after a catastrophic event.

HA is used for IaaS, while DR is used for PaaS.

HA requires manual intervention, while DR is always automated.

HA is a security feature, while DR is a performance feature.

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Compare the scope of failures each concept is designed to handle.

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A.HA focuses on keeping services running during localized failures, while DR focuses on restoring services after a catastrophic event.✓ Correct

High Availability ensures your application stays up despite minor, localized failures (e.g., a VM crashing). Disaster Recovery is a plan and set of tools to recover your application in a different location if a major disaster destroys the primary location.

Common mistakes

Treating HA and DR as the exact same thing.

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