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Field Notes: Setting Up Disaster Recovery in a Different Seismic Zone Using AWS Outposts

AWS Disaster Recovery

Depending on the RPO and RTO of the mission-critical workload, the requirement for disaster recovery ranges from simple backup and restore, to multi-site, active-active, setup. Create an Outpost and order Outpost capacity as described in the documentation. In this blog post, I explain how AWS Outposts can be used for DR on AWS.

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

AWS Disaster Recovery

Earlier, we were able to restore from the backup but wanted to improve availability further. We built a pilot light using point-in-time backups for data stores, cross-Region Amazon RDS read replicas , cross-Region Amazon S3 replication , and AWS CloudFormation templates. Standardize observability. Related information.