DR solution decision matrix

Use the following table to review RPO, RTO, licensing and other features of disaster recovery options for Amazon RDS for Oracle and SQL Server and find the solutions that best fit your business requirements.

Feature	RPO (approximate)	RTO (approximate)	Licensing	Readable standby	Automatic failover	Endpoint change in failover	Setup and maintenance complexity
Multi-AZ deployment (in-Region)	0	1–2 minutes	SE, SE2, and EE	No	Yes	No	Low
Amazon RDS PITR snapshot replication (cross-Region)	25 minutes	Hours	SE, SE2, and EE	No	No	Yes	Low
Automated snapshots using AWS Backup (cross-Region)	Hours	Hours	SE, SE2, and EE	No	No	Yes	Medium
Native transaction log backup replication (SQL Server only)	5–15 minutes	Minutes	SE and EE	Yes	No	Yes	High
AWS DMS	Secondsor minutes	Minutes	SE, SE2, and EE	Yes	No	Yes	High
Replica promotion (in-Region)	0–5 Minutes	Minutes	EE only	Yes	No	Yes	Low
Automated snapshots using AWS Backup (in-Region)	5 minutes	Hours	SE, SE2, and EE	No	No	Yes	Medium
Replica promotion (cross-Region)	0–15 Minutes	Minutes	EE Only	Yes	No	Yes	Medium