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

AWS Disaster Recovery

Then we explored the backup and restore strategy. The left AWS Region is the primary Region that is active, and the right Region is the recovery Region that is passive before failover. In addition to replication, both strategies require you to create a continuous backup in the recovery Region. Pilot light DR strategy.

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

AWS Disaster Recovery

As a refresher from previous blogs, our example ecommerce company’s “Shoppers” application runs in the cloud. Minimum business continuity for failover. Earlier, we were able to restore from the backup but wanted to improve availability further. Centralized cross-account management with Cross-Region copy using AWS Backup.