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

AWS Disaster Recovery

Recovering your mission-critical workloads from outages is essential for business continuity and providing services to customers with little or no interruption. This ensures that the control plane stays available via the AWS Singapore Region even if there is an outage in AWS Mumbai Region affecting control plane availability.

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

AWS Disaster Recovery

Amazon EKS control plane : Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) control plane nodes run in an account managed by AWS. Amazon EKS data plane : Operating highly available and resilient applications requires a highly available and resilient data plane.

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

AWS Disaster Recovery

Our business needs in this scenario required us to build high availability to prevent 30 minutes of continuous downtime (RTO) and prevent persistent user data loss (that is, a few minutes RPO). Production outages are scary for everyone, but with the right system monitoring solution, they can be made less stressful.