Recovery Point Objective (RPO)

The RPO is a measure of how much data is lost during an incident. In a situation where you have an unintended change made to a database, the amount of time between the system being taken offline and the last backup is the RPO.

In this exercise, you will create an RDS database and then demonstrate the ability to roll the database back to a specific point in time. This point-in-time recovery can greatly reduce the RPO of an incident.

Create a MySQL RDS database with backups enabled, let it run for a short period of time, and then "restore" it to a previous point-in-time.