article thumbnail

Cyber Recovery vs. Disaster Recovery

Pure Storage

For example, a targeted ransomware attack on an ecommerce site’s third-party payment portal wouldn’t need to trigger a system-wide recovery effort for the entire application and every database. What Sort of Data Needs to Be Recovered? How long it takes to recover from a disaster can depend on: How quickly the event itself is resolved (e.g.,

article thumbnail

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

AWS Disaster Recovery

In this blog, we talk about architecture patterns to improve system resiliency, why observability matters, and how to build a holistic observability solution. As a refresher from previous blogs, our example ecommerce company’s “Shoppers” application runs in the cloud. Predictive scaling for EC2. Conclusion. Find out more.

article thumbnail

Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part III: Pilot Light and Warm Standby

AWS Disaster Recovery

Then we explored the backup and restore strategy. In addition to replication, both strategies require you to create a continuous backup in the recovery Region. Backups are necessary to enable you to get back to the last known good state. For example, an ecommerce workload would look at order rates. Related information.