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Two Outages in Two Weeks? Get DR for AWS

Zerto

Give your organization the gift of Zerto In-Cloud DR before the next outage . At the end of November, I blogged about the need for disaster recovery in the cloud and also attended AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, Nevada. But I am not clairvoyant, and even I could not have predicted two AWS outages in the time since then.

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Disaster recovery with AWS managed services, Part 2: Multi-Region/backup and restore

AWS Disaster Recovery

In part two, we introduce a multi-Region backup and restore approach. Using a backup and restore strategy will safeguard applications and data against large-scale events as a cost-effective solution, but will result in longer downtimes and greater loss of data in the event of a disaster as compared to other strategies as shown in Figure 1.

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Backup and DR – The Last Line of Ransomware Defense

OffsiteDataSync

Backup and disaster recovery are critical elements in the drive to thwart ransomware. Backup is the final layer of data protection. All too often, however, organizations mount what they think are effective backup systems only to find them inadequate in a real emergency. Want to learn more about backup and ransomware?

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World Backup Day: The MSP Uptime Lifeline

OffsiteDataSync

World Backup Day was first introduced in 2011. It was easy enough back then; IT just had to backup to tape at night, keep a copy or two around for a month and send another offsite for archival storage. Backup has seen great advancement – even the standard 3-2-1 rule has added a digit or two. But those times are long gone.

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Minimizing Dependencies in a Disaster Recovery Plan

AWS Disaster Recovery

What if the very tools that we rely on for failover are themselves impacted by a DR event? In this post, you’ll learn how to reduce dependencies in your DR plan and manually control failover even if critical AWS services are disrupted. Failover plan dependencies and considerations. Let’s dig into the DR scenario in more detail.

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Disaster Recovery Solutions with AWS-Managed Services, Part 3: Multi-Site Active/Passive

AWS Disaster Recovery

In part two of this series, we introduced a DR concept that utilizes managed services through a backup and restore strategy with multiple Regions. Amazon Route53 – Active/Passive Failover : This configuration consists of primary resources to be available, and secondary resources on standby in the case of failure of the primary environment.

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Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part I: Strategies for Recovery in the Cloud

AWS Disaster Recovery

This blog post shows how to architect for disaster recovery (DR) , which is the process of preparing for and recovering from a disaster. For most examples in this blog post, we use a multi-Region approach to demonstrate DR strategies. All requests are now switched to be routed there in a process called “failover.”