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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. As a bonus, you’ll see how to use service control policies (SCPs) to help simulate a Regional outage, so that you can test failover scenarios more realistically. Failover plan dependencies and considerations.

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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). Production outages are scary for everyone, but with the right system monitoring solution, they can be made less stressful.