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

AWS Disaster Recovery

My subsequent posts shared details on the backup and restore , pilot light, and warm standby active/passive strategies. Each Region hosts a highly available, multi- Availability Zone (AZ) workload stack. Figure 2 shows Amazon Route 53 , a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) , used for routing.

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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. DR strategies: Choosing backup and restore. Implementing backup and restore.

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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). Earlier, we were able to restore from the backup but wanted to improve availability further. Related information.

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Using Route 53 Private Hosted Zones for Cross-account Multi-region Architectures

AWS Disaster Recovery

It utilizes PHZs with overlapping namespaces and cross-account multi-region VPC association for PHZs to create an efficient, scalable, and highly available architecture for DNS. This architecture pattern follows the option of the “Multi-Account Decentralized” model as described in the whitepaper Hybrid Cloud DNS options for Amazon VPC.

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Minimizing Dependencies in a Disaster Recovery Plan

AWS Disaster Recovery

The Availability and Beyond whitepaper discusses the concept of static stability for improving resilience. In the simplest case, we’ve deployed an application in a primary Region and a backup Region. First, Route 53, our DNS service, has to be available.