Google Cloud Disaster Recovery
Google Cloud Disaster Recovery (DR) is a set of services and best practices on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) designed to ensure business continuity and data protection during outages or disasters. It involves strategies like backup, replication, and failover to maintain application availability and minimize downtime. Key services include Cloud Storage for backups, Compute Engine for failover instances, and managed services like Cloud SQL and BigQuery with built-in high availability.
Developers should learn Google Cloud DR when building or migrating critical applications to GCP that require high availability, such as e-commerce platforms, financial systems, or healthcare applications. It is essential for meeting compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA) and reducing recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) during incidents like data center failures or cyberattacks.