Cloud Redundancy
Cloud redundancy is a design principle and implementation strategy in cloud computing that involves deploying duplicate or backup components, systems, or data across multiple locations or availability zones to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. It aims to prevent single points of failure by replicating resources, so if one component fails, another can seamlessly take over, minimizing downtime and data loss. This concept is fundamental to building resilient and reliable cloud-based applications and infrastructure.
Developers should learn and implement cloud redundancy when building mission-critical applications, such as e-commerce platforms, financial services, or healthcare systems, where downtime or data loss can have severe consequences. It is essential for ensuring business continuity, meeting service-level agreements (SLAs), and complying with regulatory requirements for data protection and availability. By using redundancy, developers can enhance system reliability, improve user experience, and reduce the risk of outages due to hardware failures, network issues, or regional disasters.