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

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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. Pilot light DR strategy. Warm standby DR strategy. Similarities between these two DR strategies.

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

AWS Disaster Recovery

Figure 2 shows the four strategies for DR that are highlighted in the DR whitepaper. All requests are now switched to be routed there in a process called “failover.” For tighter RTO/RPO objectives, the data is maintained live, and the infrastructure is fully or partially deployed in the recovery site before failover.

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

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Minimum business continuity for failover. To meet these goals, we developed a long-term business continuity plan per the Disaster Recovery of Workloads on AWS: Recovery in the Cloud whitepaper that consisted of the following: We accepted data loss for the data that’s not persistent in the database. Standardize observability.