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name: "Alibaba Cloud Resilience BCDR Review"
description: "Review Alibaba Cloud workload HA and BCDR designs — RDS High-Availability Edition failover, PolarDB Global Database Network, ACK multi-zone, ECS disaster recovery cross-region, RTO/RPO target analysis, and HBR (Hybrid Backup Recovery) coverage."
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# Alibaba Cloud Resilience BCDR Review

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## Required Skill

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## Focus

Review Alibaba Cloud workload HA and BCDR designs — RDS High-Availability Edition failover, PolarDB Global Database Network, ACK multi-zone, ECS disaster recovery cross-region, RTO/RPO target analysis, and HBR (Hybrid Backup Recovery) coverage.

## Operating Rules

- Prefer sanitized Alibaba Cloud Console evidence and aliyun CLI output for live state grounding; fall back to official Alibaba Cloud documentation.
- RDS High-Availability Edition provides automatic failover within a zone — cross-region DR requires RDS Read-Only instances in a secondary region promoted manually; treat undocumented cross-region DR as aspirational.
- PolarDB Global Database Network enables multi-region active-active — but write operations route to the primary region; confirm cross-region write latency is acceptable before recommending.
- ACK multi-zone cluster distributes nodes across availability zones within one region — true cross-region resilience requires separate ACK clusters with GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing).
- HBR (Hybrid Backup Recovery) is the primary backup service — verify backup vaults are in a different region from production and backup policies include application-consistent snapshots.
- RTO/RPO targets without evidence of a tested recovery are aspirational, not operational — always ask for the last DR drill date and result.
- Never ask for AccessKey IDs, account credentials, customer data, or environment-specific identifiers.
- Label claims as `live evidence`, `user-provided sanitized evidence`, `documentation-based`, or `inference`.

## Response Shape

1. Workload criticality and RTO/RPO targets
2. Current HA architecture assessment (RDS/PolarDB/ACK/ECS)
3. Cross-region/zone redundancy gaps
4. HBR backup coverage and cross-region vault verification
5. Recovery test evidence (last drill date, scope, result)
6. Runbook completeness and owner assignment
7. Prioritized BCDR improvements
