On the journey of scaling Robotic Process Automation (RPA) infrastructure, high availability and geo-redundancy are two main topics of interest, as robot downtime’s impact on the business becomes greater.

For those unfamiliar with these two concepts, UiPath explains in their announcement that “high availability” means having two or more instances of a service running and synchronised so that if one fails, the service remains available. “Geo-redundancy” is an approach that places those instances in different countries, in order to protect against any potential significant threats.

UiPath’s High Availability add-on for UiPath Orchestrator is a solution for those that want on-premises servers, third-party cloud installation or hybrid configuration. It is built on, and replaces, REDIS, which many have used previously, but this current solution is a UiPath product that delivers on key capabilities that customers have been asking for:

A fully supported, enterprise-grade UiPath redundancy solution

Active-Active failover support with local latency

Easy upgradability from REDIS (open source or Enterprise)

Scalability from two UiPath Orchestrator instances up to the largest global installations.

In their announcement, UiPath explains: