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

AWS Disaster Recovery

In this blog, we talk about architecture patterns to improve system resiliency, why observability matters, and how to build a holistic observability solution. Increase resiliency. In the following sections, we show you the steps we took to improve system resiliency for our example company. Conclusion.

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Using Route 53 Private Hosted Zones for Cross-account Multi-region Architectures

AWS Disaster Recovery

It utilizes PHZs with overlapping namespaces and cross-account multi-region VPC association for PHZs to create an efficient, scalable, and highly available architecture for DNS. This architecture pattern follows the option of the “Multi-Account Decentralized” model as described in the whitepaper Hybrid Cloud DNS options for Amazon VPC.

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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. Briefly, a control plane is used to configure resources, and the data plane delivers services (see Understanding Availability Needs for a more complete definition.).