SAP on AWS · Resilience: HA, DR & Service Levels for SAP

A colleague argues that co-locating SAP HA nodes in one region is risky because 'a region is just one big data center that can fail as a unit.' What is wrong about how AWS actually builds a region, and what design principle backs it up?

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