Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
The maximum acceptable period of time following a service disruption that can elapse before the service is restored.
Impact
RTO dictates your standby strategy (Cold, Warm, Hot).
Weinto take
Automated Failover. If your recovery plan involves a human reading a binder and typing commands, your RTO is "Hours." If it's automated, your RTO is "Seconds." We engineer for the latter.