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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. Recovery with pilot light or warm standby.

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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. Building disaster recovery (DR) strategies into your system requires you to work backwards from recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) requirements.