--- name: framework-financial-services-shared-high-availability title: High availability overview description: Ensuring high availability (HA) is important for all cloud-based applications, and it is all the more critical for regulated workloads that the IBM Cloud for Financial Services is intended to host. In short, consumers depend on your application and cannot afford downtime. Using the VPC reference architecture and following the controls of the IBM Cloud Framework for Financial Services help you achieve that goal. When building an HA solution in IBM Cloud, you need to consider your workloads that run in virtual servers or Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud and the HA characteristics of all of the other IBM Cloud services your solution depends on. last-updated: 2025-02-20 --- > ## Documentation Index > The table of contents for this documentation set is at https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/framework-financial-services?format=markdown > The index for all IBM Cloud docs is at: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/llms.txt > Use these files to discover more information as needed. # High availability overview {: #shared-high-availability} Ensuring high availability (HA) is important for all cloud-based applications, and it is all the more critical for regulated workloads that the IBM Cloud for Financial Services is intended to host. In short, consumers depend on your application and cannot afford downtime. Using the VPC reference architecture and following the controls of the IBM Cloud Framework for Financial Services help you achieve that goal. When building an HA solution in IBM Cloud, you need to consider your workloads that run in virtual servers or Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud and the HA characteristics of all of the other IBM Cloud services your solution depends on. {: shortdesc} ## HA for the reference architectures See the following resources depending on which reference architecture you are using: - [High availability for VPC reference architecture](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/framework-financial-services?topic=framework-financial-services-vpc-architecture-high-availability&format=markdown) - [High availability for Satellite reference architecture](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/framework-financial-services?topic=framework-financial-services-satellite-architecture-high-availability&format=markdown) ## HA in IBM Cloud services {: #ibm-cloud-services} Your HA strategy needs to consider all of the IBM Cloud services in your deployment. The following table provides references to additional information on HA for each service in the reference architecture. | Category | VPC reference architecture | Satellite reference architecture | Optional for both | |----------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------| | Core | - [VPC infrastructure services](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-ha-dr-vpc&format=markdown) [^tabletext] | - [Satellite](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/satellite?topic=satellite-ha&format=markdown) | | | Containers | - [Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/openshift?topic=openshift-strategy&format=markdown) \n - [Container Registry](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/Registry?topic=Registry-ha-dr&format=markdown) | - [Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/openshift?topic=openshift-strategy&format=markdown) [^tabletext-satellite-enabled-openshift] \n - [Container Registry](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/Registry?topic=Registry-ha-dr&format=markdown) | | | Networking | - [VPC infrastructure services](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-ha-dr-vpc&format=markdown) \n - [Direct Link](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/dl?topic=dl-ha-dr&format=markdown) \n - [Transit Gateway](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/transit-gateway?topic=transit-gateway-ha-dr&format=markdown#high-availability) | | | | Storage | - [Block Storage for VPC](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-ha-dr-vpc&format=markdown) \n - [Object Storage](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-object-storage?topic=cloud-object-storage-endpoints&format=markdown#endpoints-geo) | - [Object Storage](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-object-storage?topic=cloud-object-storage-endpoints&format=markdown#endpoints-geo) | | | Security | - [Hyper Protect Crypto Services](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/hs-crypto?topic=hs-crypto-ha-dr&format=markdown) | - [Hyper Protect Crypto Services](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/hs-crypto?topic=hs-crypto-ha-dr&format=markdown) | - [App ID](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/appid?topic=appid-ha-dr&format=markdown) | | Logging and monitoring | - [Activity Tracker Event Routing](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/atracker?topic=atracker-ha_dr&format=markdown) \n - [Compliance Manager](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/security-compliance?topic=security-compliance-ha&format=markdown) \n - [Flow Logs for VPC](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-ha-dr-vpc&format=markdown) | - [Activity Tracker Event Routing](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/atracker?topic=atracker-ha_dr&format=markdown) \n - [Compliance Manager](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/security-compliance?topic=security-compliance-ha&format=markdown) | | | Integration | | | - [Event Streams](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/EventStreams?topic=EventStreams-sla&format=markdown) | {: caption="High availability information for IBM Cloud services in the reference architectures" caption-side="top"} [^tabletext]: Only required if enabling public internet access to workload VPC for application consumers. [^tabletext-satellite-enabled-openshift]: {{site.data.content.satellite-enabled-openshift}} The references cover the steps that the service has taken to achieve high availability as well as the steps you must take. For example, consider Direct Link. The Direct Link service itself makes use of multiple zones within a region to help achieve HA. However, you Direct Link is not a redundant service at the cross-connect router (XCR), so you have the responsibility for creating redundancy through your border gateway protocol (BGP) schemas. See [High availability and disaster recovery for Direct Link](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/dl?topic=dl-ha-dr&format=markdown) and [Models for diversity and redundancy in Direct Link](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/dl?topic=dl-models-for-diversity-and-redundancy-in-direct-link&format=markdown) for more details. In addition to the Financial Services Validated services in the reference architecture, see the following references for other important information: * [How IBM Cloud ensures high availability and disaster recovery](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/overview?topic=overview-zero-downtime&format=markdown) * [Responsibilities for operating services in your deployment](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/framework-financial-services?topic=framework-financial-services-shared-responsibilities&format=markdown) ## Related controls in IBM Cloud Framework for Financial Services {: #related-controls} The following IBM Cloud Framework for Financial Services controls are most related to this guidance. However, in addition to following the guidance here, ydo your own due diligence to ensure you meet the requirements. | Family | Control | |---------------------|---------------------------------------------------| | Contingency Planning (CP) | [CP-2 Contingency Plan](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/framework-financial-services-controls?topic=framework-financial-services-controls-cp-2&format=markdown) \n [CP-7 Alternate Processing Site](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/framework-financial-services-controls?topic=framework-financial-services-controls-cp-7&format=markdown) | | System and Communications Protection (SC) | [SC-6 Resource Availability](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/framework-financial-services-controls?topic=framework-financial-services-controls-sc-6&format=markdown) | {: caption="Related controls in IBM Cloud Framework for Financial Services [FSv2.0]" caption-side="top"} {: #related-controls-fsv2.0} {: tab-title="FSv2.0"} {: tab-group="RelatedControls-1"} {: class="simple-tab-table"} | Family | Control | |---------------------|---------------------------------------------------| | Contingency Planning (CP) | [CP-2 Contingency Plan](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/framework-financial-services-controls-fsv1-1?topic=framework-financial-services-controls-fsv1-1-cp-2&format=markdown) \n [CP-7 Alternate Processing Site](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/framework-financial-services-controls-fsv1-1?topic=framework-financial-services-controls-fsv1-1-cp-7&format=markdown) | | System and Communications Protection (SC) | [SC-6 Resource Availability](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/framework-financial-services-controls-fsv1-1?topic=framework-financial-services-controls-fsv1-1-sc-6&format=markdown) | {: caption="Related controls in IBM Cloud Framework for Financial Services [FSv1.1]" caption-side="top"} {: #related-controls-fsv1.1} {: tab-title="FSv1.1"} {: tab-group="RelatedControls-1"} {: class="simple-tab-table"} ## Next steps {: #next-steps} * [Development processes and software integrity](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/framework-financial-services?topic=framework-financial-services-shared-development-processes&format=markdown)