Understanding high availability and disaster recovery

All IBM Cloud® general availability (GA) services have a Service Level Agreement of 99.99% availability. IBM Cloud VPC is offered in Dallas, Toronto, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Tokyo, Osaka, Sydney, Washington DC, and São Paulo. Each location has three different zones for redundancy.

See ensure zero downtime to learn more about the high availability and disaster recovery standards in IBM Cloud. For more information about high availability and disaster recovery for IBM Cloud VPC, see Your responsibilities by using Virtual Private Cloud. You can also find information about Service Level Agreements.

For examples of deploying a highly available web application, see Building a highly available 3-tier web application in VPC.

For more information about how you can use Veeam software to back up your storage data on a virtual server instance, see About Veeam.

Placement Groups supports anti-affinity placement strategies for workload high availability. For more information, see About placement groups.