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

AWS Disaster Recovery

The left AWS Region is the primary Region that is active, and the right Region is the recovery Region that is passive before failover. The warm standby strategy deploys a functional stack, but at reduced capacity. For example, an ecommerce workload would look at order rates. Pilot light DR strategy. Warm standby 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. This allows us to adjust capacity needs by forecasting usage patterns along with configurable warm-up time for application bootstrap. Standardize observability.