Aws Disaster Recovery White Paper

Today s blog post explains the features of disaster recovery in aws the role of a disaster recovery plan and how to protect your virtual environment in amazon cloud.

Aws disaster recovery white paper. The paper highlights various aws features and services that you can leverage for your dr processes and shows different architectural approaches on how to recover from a disaster. Aws disaster recovery whitepaper highlights aws services and features that can be leveraged for disaster recovery dr processes to significantly minimize the impact on data system. Depending on your recovery time objective rto and recovery point objective rpo two commonly used industry terms when building your dr strategy you have the. Aws disaster recovery has similarities and differences in comparison to the disaster recovery of virtual machines running on physical servers.

For example if a disaster occurs at 12 00 pm noon and the rto is eight hours the dr process should restore the business process to the acceptable service level by 8 00 pm. When creating a plan for dr it is important to understand your requirements but also what each scenario can provide. Enabling cost efficient disaster recovery leveraging cloud infrastructure by lauren whitehouse and jason buffington january 2012 this esg white paper was commissioned by amazon web services llc and is distributed under license from esg. Expand your knowledge of the cloud with aws technical content authored by aws and the aws community including technical whitepapers technical guides reference material and reference architecture diagrams.

Recovery time objective rto 1 the time it takes after a disruption to restore a business process to its service level as defined by the operational level agreement ola.