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Explain the trade-offs between multi-region active-active versus active-passive deployments. Woo, that's a tongue twister. Um, yeah, so active-active deployment is both regions are actively serving traffic simultaneously. It provides high availability and fault tolerance since if one region fails, the other continues serving without downtime. It improves latency by serving users from the closest region. It requires complex data synchronization and conflict resolution mechanisms to keep data consistent across regions. Higher operational complexity and cost due to maintaining fully active infrastructure in multiple regions. Useful for global applications with strict uptime and performance requirements. Active-passive deployment: one region actively serves traffic while the other is on standby. Simpler to implement and manage since only one region handles live traffic at a time. Lower cost as the passive region may have reduced resource usage until failover.