ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Practice Question
Your SaaS platform runs a stateless REST API on container clusters in a single public cloud availability zone. Management asks for greater resiliency so that customer requests continue with minimal disruption if the zone becomes unavailable. Which architectural change best satisfies this requirement while aligning with high-availability design principles?
Deploy identical API clusters in a second availability zone and load-balance traffic across both zones using health checks.
Enable horizontal pod auto-scaling inside the existing zone to add containers when CPU usage peaks.
Schedule nightly database and filesystem backups to object storage in a different region for disaster recovery.
Place the API behind a global CDN to cache responses and reduce latency for end users.
Running identical, health-checked instances of the API in at least two availability zones and distributing traffic across them creates an active-active topology. Because requests can be served by either zone at any moment, the loss of one zone is masked by automatic failover at the load balancer, keeping service interruption to only the brief time needed to detect the outage. Horizontal auto-scaling in one zone mitigates load spikes but not zone failure. Nightly backups help with disaster recovery, yet restoring from them can take hours and does not keep the service running. A CDN may cache static content, but dynamic API calls still rely on the origin and will fail if the sole zone is down.
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