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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. DR objectives. Related information.

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

AWS Disaster Recovery

In this blog post, you will learn about two more active/passive strategies that enable your workload to recover from disaster events such as natural disasters, technical failures, or human actions. Previously, I introduced you to four strategies for disaster recovery (DR) on AWS. Related information.

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Understand resiliency patterns and trade-offs to architect efficiently in the cloud

AWS Disaster Recovery

P1 is less expensive because it provisions less compute capacity and relies on launching new instances in case of a failure. P4 – Multi-AZ deployment (multi-Region disaster recovery). Data is actively replicated and application infrastructure is pre-provisioned in the disaster recovery (DR) Region. Trade-offs.

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

AWS Disaster Recovery

Building disaster recovery (DR) strategies into your system requires you to work backwards from recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) requirements. This allows us to adjust capacity needs by forecasting usage patterns along with configurable warm-up time for application bootstrap.

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Everything You Need to Know About Business Continuity Plans

Erwood Group

NOTE: DRII takes this definition from the Business Continuity Institute BCI and Disaster Recovery Journal DRJ. Can personnel on shifts work longer or different shifts without impacting output or capacity? Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. Do we need to hire new workers? Continuity. BCP and BCP Meaning.