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Top Architecture Blog Posts of 2023

AWS Disaster Recovery

2023 was a rollercoaster year in tech, and we at the AWS Architecture Blog feel so fortunate to have shared in the excitement. Building endless aisle architecture for order processing Check it out! #9: Architecture flow for Microservices to simulate a realistic failure scenario Check it out! #6: 6: Let’s Architect! Figure 5. #5:

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Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference?

Pure Storage

Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference? It’s important to understand the distinctions between business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP) because they each entail a different set of problems, priorities, and solutions. What Is Disaster Recovery Planning?

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How to Create a Network Disaster Recovery Plan

Pure Storage

How to Create a Network Disaster Recovery Plan by Pure Storage Blog When Colonial Pipeline fell victim to a devastating cyberattack in May 2021, the company’s operations came to a standstill, leading to widespread fuel shortages throughout the eastern United States. What Is a Network Disaster Recovery Plan?

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Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part I: Strategies for Recovery in the Cloud

AWS Disaster Recovery

Ultimately, any event that prevents a workload or system from fulfilling its business objectives in its primary location is classified a disaster. This blog post shows how to architect for disaster recovery (DR) , which is the process of preparing for and recovering from a disaster. Architecture of the DR strategies.

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Implementing Multi-Region Disaster Recovery Using Event-Driven Architecture

AWS Disaster Recovery

In this blog post, we share a reference architecture that uses a multi-Region active/passive strategy to implement a hot standby strategy for disaster recovery (DR). DR implementation architecture on multi-Region active/passive workloads. Fail over with event-driven serverless architecture. Figure 1.

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Recovering Right: How to Improve at IT Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

Related on MHA Consulting: The Cloud Is Not a Magic Kingdom: Misconceptions About Cloud-Based IT/DR The Cloud Is Not a Plan A common misconception today is that the shift from company-owned data centers toward cloud-based environments means companies can quit worrying about IT disaster recovery (IT/DR). (IT/DR

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Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part IV: Multi-site Active/Active

AWS Disaster Recovery

In my first blog post of this series , I introduced you to four strategies for disaster recovery (DR). The architecture in Figure 2 shows you how to use AWS Regions as your active sites, creating a multi-Region active/active architecture. I use Amazon DynamoDB for the example architecture in Figure 2.