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Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part II: Backup and Restore with Rapid Recovery

AWS Disaster Recovery

By using the best practices provided in the AWS Well-Architected Reliability Pillar whitepaper to design your DR strategy, your workloads can remain available despite disaster events such as natural disasters, technical failures, or human actions. Every AWS Region consists of multiple Availability Zones (AZs).

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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). This enables alerts when we are close to reaching quotas. Service Quota supports Amazon CloudWatch integration for some services.