Disasters can strike at any time and can cause significant damage to businesses, which means it’s important to have a disaster recovery and resiliency strategy in place to minimize downtime, data loss, and the impact of failures.
Now, fortunately, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a range of features and benefits to help businesses design and operate resilient systems.
In the table below, we’ll explore how AWS makes disaster recovery simple with a focus on the key features, benefits, and pain points they solve for businesses, throughout one simple table you can print and keep close as a refresher 😉
Whether you’re just starting to plan your disaster recovery strategy or looking to improve your existing plan, this table will provide valuable insights into the capabilities of AWS for disaster recovery and resiliency.
| Features | Benefits | Pain Points Solved |
|---|---|---|
| Multi-site active-active | Provides continuous availability of workloads across multiple regions | Minimizes downtime and data loss in the event of a disaster |
| Pilot light and warm standby | Provides a partially or fully operational environment that can be quickly scaled up in the event of a disaster | Minimizes downtime and data loss in the event of a disaster |
| Backup and restore with rapid recovery | Provides a way to quickly recover data and systems in the event of a disaster | Minimizes downtime and data loss in the event of a disaster |
| Health checks | Monitors the health of systems and automatically replaces failed instances | Minimizes downtime and data loss in the event of a disaster |
| Fault isolation | Isolates failures to prevent them from affecting other parts of the system | Minimizes the impact of failures |
| Workload architecture | Provides a way to design workloads that are resilient to failures | Minimizes the impact of failures |
| Disaster recovery plan checklist | Provides a comprehensive checklist for disaster recovery planning | Helps ensure all necessary steps are taken for disaster recovery planning |
| AWS Well-Architected Framework | Provides best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems | Helps ensure workloads are designed and operated in a resilient manner |
