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Cloud disaster recovery planning

Cloud disaster recovery planning - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Cloud disaster recovery planning

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- [Instructor] Organizations using cloud computing need to consider the potential negative impact should those services fail or become compromised. So we're talking about cloud disaster recovery planning. This involves conducting a business impact analysis and also crafting disaster recovery policies. It begins with the risk assessment where the first thing that needs to happen is the identification of assets must occur. Now, an asset could be an IT system that it supports a business process. Of course, it can also be the resultant data such as customer shopping habits for an e-commerce website. We then have to identify the threats to those assets. Now, one threat might be the disclosure of sensitive customer information once they are paying or what they are shopping for, in the case of an e-commerce site. We can implement a risk register. A risk register is a central compiled list of risks along with any threats, any…

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