Remove Continuity Planning Remove Failover Remove Mitigation Remove Whitepaper
article thumbnail

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

AWS Disaster Recovery

DR is a crucial part of your Business Continuity Plan. Figure 2 shows the four strategies for DR that are highlighted in the DR whitepaper. All requests are now switched to be routed there in a process called “failover.” Before failover, the infrastructure must scale up to meet production needs. DR objectives.

article thumbnail

Journey to Adopt Cloud-Native Architecture Series: #3 – Improved Resilience and Standardized Observability

AWS Disaster Recovery

Your application must be designed to handle any cascading failures to maintain a continuous user experience even when the backend systems are experiencing issues. Minimum business continuity for failover. In the following sections, we show you the steps we took to improve system resiliency for our example company.