High availability (HA) is all about ensuring that systems remain operational for as much time as possible, reducing downtime to a minimum.
The classic approach to achieving high availability involves duplicating key components, implementing redundancy, failover mechanisms, and fault tolerance.
In modern cloud-native systems, high availability is achieved through containerization, orchestration, service redundancy, and distributed databases.
Cloud providers offer built-in solutions for high availability, such as availability zones, regional redundancy, and auto-scaling.