Disaster recovery involves a set of policies, tools, and procedures for returning a system, an application, or an entire data center to full operation after a catastrophic interruption. It includes procedures for copying and storing an installed system's essential data in a secure location, and for recovering that data to restore normalcy of operation.
Disaster recovery strategy
You are responsible for your data backup and associated recovery of your content.
watsonx.governance as a Service on AWS provides mechanisms to protect your data and restore service functions. Business continuity plans are in place to achieve targeted recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) for the service. The following table outlines the targets for watsonx.governance as a Service on AWS.
| Disaster recovery objective | Target Value |
|---|---|
| RPO | Up to 24 hours |
| RTO | Up to 72 hours |
The service is restored to another region based on the following table. The application URL domain is updated during a restore. When the service is restored at the target region, the new application URL is available in the IBM SaaS Console.
If you customized the hostname, the URL uses the updated region, along with the custom hostname.
| Primary region of the service | Target region to restore the service |
|---|---|
AWS US East (Northern Virginia) us-east-1 |
AWS US West (Oregon) us-west-2 |
AWS Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1 |
AWS Europe (London) eu-west-2 |
Parent topic: Managing your watsonx.governance environment on AWS (ongoing maintenance)