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Active-Passive

Active-Passive Architecture

Definition

Active-passive is a failover architecture where a primary instance handles all traffic while a standby instance remains idle but synchronized. When the primary fails, traffic is routed to the standby — trading instantaneous failover for lower operational cost compared to active-active.

The standby's warmup time determines how closely RTO targets can be met.


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