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Cloud Disaster Recovery Strategies and Patterns

Navigating cloud disaster recovery requires balancing cost, complexity, and risk. This course will teach you how to evaluate DR patterns and design resilient failover strategies tailored to your business goals.

Advanced
1h 4m

Created by Kevin James

Last Updated Oct 09, 2026

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Cloud Disaster Recovery Strategies and Patterns

Navigating cloud disaster recovery requires balancing cost, complexity, and risk. This course will teach you how to evaluate DR patterns and design resilient failover strategies tailored to your business goals.

Advanced
1h 4m

Created by Kevin James

Last Updated Oct 09, 2026

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What you'll learn

Unproven recovery plans and complex, costly setups leave cloud systems vulnerable during real outages. In this course, Cloud Disaster Recovery Strategies and Patterns, you’ll gain the ability to architect cost-effective, failure-ready recovery strategies. First, you’ll explore aligning RTO/RPO objectives with core DR patterns. Next, you’ll discover managing data replication and restore validation. Finally, you’ll learn how to execute multi-region failover cleanly. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of cloud disaster recovery needed to protect critical systems against outages.

Cloud Disaster Recovery Strategies and Patterns
Advanced
1h 4m
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Kevin James - Pluralsight course - Cloud Disaster Recovery Strategies and Patterns
Kevin James
28 courses 4.1 author rating 44 ratings

As a seasoned technologist with over 30 years of wide-ranging expertise in information technology roles across diverse industries, Kevin is passionate about finding effective and economical solutions to business problems. His passion for teaching technical subjects allows him to have a particular style that imparts information yet teaches at the same time. He enjoys working with Linux, Unix and Windows Operating Systems and combined with a deep knowledge of software platforms as varied as Apache, MySQL, and others, has enabled him to successfully manage and maintain server infrastructures of all sizes, with his largest project encompassing over 800 servers across 4 continents. He believes in leveraging technology as a tool to make lives better and business flow more efficiently.

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