Geo Redundancy
Geo Redundancy is a disaster recovery and high availability strategy that involves distributing data, applications, or infrastructure across multiple geographically separate locations. It ensures that if one location fails due to natural disasters, power outages, or other disruptions, operations can continue from another site with minimal downtime. This concept is critical for maintaining business continuity and data resilience in distributed systems.
Developers should implement Geo Redundancy when building applications that require high availability, such as e-commerce platforms, financial services, or global SaaS products, to prevent data loss and service interruptions. It is essential for compliance with regulations like GDPR or HIPAA that mandate data protection across regions, and it improves user experience by reducing latency through regional failover points. Use cases include cloud deployments, database replication, and content delivery networks (CDNs) to ensure reliability and scalability.