When a disaster happens, you may lose a part or all of your data. In general, a disaster is defined as a temporal or permanent loss of the whole service with no guarantees that it will become available again. Such disasters are floods, earthquakes, or fires, just to name a few. Disasters tend to occur in a single region (the probability of disasters occurring in separate regions simultaneously is very small), so in general you need two different data centers to implement disaster recovery (DR).
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