- [Instructor] Welcome to this lesson
on Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Strategies.
In this lesson, we'll first talk about
an overview of BC and DR,
or business continuity and disaster recovery,
and then we'll talk about a handful of common scenarios
and cloud integration.
So as we get started here,
I wanted to establish a really strong definition
of what the difference is between a BCP and a DRP,
which is business continuity plan
and disaster recovery plan.
Now, in both of these scenarios,
a disaster has occurred.
The difference between them
is that a business continuity is the first step
in maintaining essential business functions
during and immediately after a disaster,
whereas a disaster recovery plan
is restoring all services and operations
to normal state after a disaster.
The differentiation between these two things
can be a common question within your exam,
so it's important to really understand
where the line is between these.
Once again, both the business continuity plan
and the disaster recovery plan
are implemented during and after a disaster,
but the business continuity plan
is about making sure we keep on the bare essentials,
that means minimum business functions
to make sure that we can sustain
what is absolutely critical.
Now, your business continuity plan
may or may not always be successful,
but even if it is,
it's likely not to be successful
in maintaining the availability of services
that are not considered business essential functions.
In both of these scenarios,
that is where the disaster recovery plan comes into action,
which is procedures established to restore all services.
Generally speaking, you can think of the BCP
as being the short term
and the DRP as being the long-term recovery.
Let's talk about a handful of common scenarios
and cloud integrations.
Traditional business continuity and disaster recovery plan
encompasses a range of scenarios from natural disasters
all the way to potentially pandemics, for example.
However, the advent of cloud computing
has absolutely revolutionized response strategies.
For instance, during pandemics
cloud services ensured operational continuity
by facilitating remote work.
This addressed health concerns
without having to necessarily
sacrifice operational capacity.
Additionally, the cloud's inherent flexibility
allows for seamless integration
into traditional BC and DR plans
by providing an extra layer of resilience.
In scenarios like natural disasters
that compromise physical business locations,
the cloud ensures that we can have
uninterrupted service delivery,
which can mitigate losses and uphold customer trust.
With that being said,
a cloud environment can enable
these types of capabilities and redundancy,
but there is still a lot of responsibility
on the cloud service customer
to make sure that you're designing your infrastructure
to be able to have this level of availability.
All right, in summary,
in this lesson, we first talked about
an overview of business continuity and disaster recovery.
Once again, emphasizing that the business continuity
is about keeping the lights on for essential services,
and disaster recovery is about long-term recovery
from a disaster for all services.
We then talked about a handful of different common scenarios
and the ability of a cloud
to help create robust infrastructure.
Thanks for joining, I'll see you in the next lesson.