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RPO · Recovery Point Objective

The most data a service accepts losing after a failure, measured in time. For training it is the age of the newest checkpoint you can recover inside the failure domain you design for.

Current numbers

about 220 Gbit/s payloadIllustrative 100 TB decimal bulk copy in one hour; about 220 Gbit/s payload, independent of the RPO testas of 2026-09 · register ↗
15 min RTO / 5 min RPO (AWS example tier)AWS Platinum resilience-tier example for mission-critical workloads; you choose your own RTO and RPOas of 2026-08-24 · register ↗

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