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Tag: AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS)
Enhance business continuity within an Availability Zone using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we recommend running workloads across multiple Availability Zones (AZ) for high availability and fault tolerance. However, there are certain situations where users need to run their workloads in a single AZ. These include legacy or commercial off the shelf (COTS) applications that don’t support deployments across multiple AZ, workloads that […]
Designing sustainable disaster recovery strategies
Disaster recovery (DR) is an important part of resilience and defines the process of preparing and recovering from a disaster. A disaster can be defined as any event that causes a serious negative impact to your business. How you respond to these unforeseen events has traditionally been a tradeoff between the cost of the solution, […]
Establish private connectivity for AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery using AWS Direct Connect
As the size of an organization’s disaster recovery (DR) implementation grows, we often see the role of the network grow in importance. The relationship between DR and the network should not come as a surprise, as we expect network performance and the ability to replicate data between the source environment and the DR site to […]
Protect Hyper-V workloads with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery (DR) is a critical process for any organization wanting to maintain business continuity in the event of a disaster such as flood, power failure, or ransomware attack. The DR strategy adopted by organizations is commonly driven by a trade-off between cost and the business impact of the time it takes for the workloads […]
Automate post-recovery actions using Amazon Elastic Disaster Recovery
Disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity planning (BCP) are critical activities for any organization. During DR operations, after workloads are restored in the DR site, there are a series of steps and activities, such as application configurations and validations, that must be properly orchestrated and coordinated among many teams and functions in order to ensure […]
Automatic network replication with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
When developing a disaster recovery strategy, it is important to manage replicating the network configuration from your primary to recovery site, including (but not limited to) things like your access control lists (ACLs) and internet gateways. In many cases, a configuration change in your primary site should be applied to your recovery site. Managing these […]
Deploying AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery at scale with AWS Systems Manager
In the digital era, ensuring business continuity through effective disaster recovery measures is crucial for organizations of all sizes. Setting up disaster recovery solutions manually, such as installing recovery agents on multiple servers, can be a significant and time-consuming task. Therefore, many customers are increasingly seeking automation not only to streamline common administrative tasks but […]
Failover Microsoft Azure workloads to AWS using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Enterprises strive to make sure that business critical applications, workloads, and data remain available during planned and unplanned downtime. When using the cloud, organizations must make sure to apply the same approach to business continuity and disaster recovery as they would with on-premises infrastructure. Customers on the cloud can leverage AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS […]
Using AWS Systems Manager to upgrade from CloudEndure Disaster Recovery to AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) is the recommended service for disaster recovery to AWS. It’s the next generation of CloudEndure Disaster Recovery (CEDR), as CloudEndure Disaster Recovery technology was used to build Elastic Disaster Recovery. Now you can upgrade replicating source servers from CloudEndure Disaster Recovery to Elastic Disaster Recovery. This is accomplished via the CEDR Server […]
Protecting domain-joined workloads with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Disaster recovery (DR) solutions for workloads that are domain-joined to Microsoft Active Directory (AD) must take into account the AD requirements of those workloads. A domain-joined workload will expect to find an AD controller to provide keys services like DNS and security related services including user and machine-based authentication. If the AD requirements are not […]