CAS-005 · Question #314
A company undergoing digital transformation is reviewing the resiliency of a CSP and is concerned about meeting SLA requirements in the event of a CSP incident. Which of the following would be best…
The correct answer is C. A multicloud provider solution. To mitigate risks from a single CSP incident and ensure SLA requirements are met, a multicloud provider solution offers the best resiliency by distributing services across different cloud providers.
Question
A company undergoing digital transformation is reviewing the resiliency of a CSP and is concerned about meeting SLA requirements in the event of a CSP incident. Which of the following would be best to proceed with the transformation?
Options
- AAn on-premises solution as a backup
- BA load balancer with a round-robin configuration
- CA multicloud provider solution
- DAn active-active solution within the same tenant
How the community answered
(35 responses)- A6% (2)
- B3% (1)
- C83% (29)
- D9% (3)
Why each option
To mitigate risks from a single CSP incident and ensure SLA requirements are met, a multicloud provider solution offers the best resiliency by distributing services across different cloud providers.
An on-premises solution as a backup might provide some resiliency, but it contradicts the goal of digital transformation to the cloud and would likely be more complex and costly to manage than a cloud-native resiliency strategy.
A load balancer with round-robin configuration distributes traffic across resources, but if those resources are all within the same CSP region or availability zone, it does not protect against a broad CSP incident.
A multicloud provider solution involves deploying services across two or more distinct cloud service providers. This strategy enhances resiliency by ensuring that if one CSP experiences a major incident or outage, the company's critical services can failover to or continue operating within another provider, thereby reducing dependency on a single vendor and improving overall availability and SLA adherence.
An active-active solution within the same tenant (and implicitly, same CSP) improves fault tolerance within that provider's infrastructure but does not protect against a large-scale incident affecting the entire cloud provider.
Concept tested: Cloud resiliency, disaster recovery, multicloud strategy
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/guide/design-principles/resiliency
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