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AWS Certified Solutions Architect study material · question 156 of 500

Which weakness does continuous replication have compared with point-in-time backups?

  1. It protects less well against data corruption or malicious deletion
  2. It takes far longer to get data into the recovery Region
  3. It cannot cross Region boundaries
  4. It requires the source and destination to be in one account
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Answer: A. It protects less well against data corruption or malicious deletion

Continuous replication gives near-zero backup time but faithfully copies corruption too, which is why point-in-time backups remain necessary.

Source: Disaster recovery options in the cloud (Amazon Web Services) — Backup and restore — AWS services

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