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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. Standardize observability. Conclusion.

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

AWS Disaster Recovery

The warm standby strategy deploys a functional stack, but at reduced capacity. If the passive stack is deployed to the recovery Region at full capacity however, then this strategy is known as “hot standby.” For example, an ecommerce workload would look at order rates. Differences between these two DR strategies.