Service Tier Comparison: Silver vs Gold
Feature | Silver | Gold |
|---|---|---|
Availability | Standard business continuity | Designed for mission-critical workloads |
Operations Strategy | Restoration-based: Service is restored after failure using backups and redeployment | Redundancy-based: Service is maintained during failure through automatic failover across multiple availability zones |
Recovery time (RTO) | Up to 48 hours (target recovery time) | Up to 1 hour (automated recovery) |
Recovery point (RPO) | Up to 24 hours of data loss | Up to 1 hour of data loss |
Infrastructure deployments | Single location deployment | Multi-location (active-active) deployment |
Data protection | Periodic backups (daily snapshots) | Real-time data replication across locations |
Failover mechanism | Manual: Requires operational intervention | Automate: System-triggered failover based on health checks |