Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers options for managed services for making your data safe and workload available during disasters. They have 4 main disaster recovery strategies for backing up your data during incidents/disasters. A comprehensive strategy will not only answer the ‘how’ but will also tell you about the ‘where’ and ‘when’ of recovering from an event/disaster. AWS managed services have tools for precisely planning and executing this. In this blog, we will discuss the disaster recovery strategies with AWS managed services.
What Are the Disaster Recovery Strategies of AWS?
AWS offers 4 major disaster recovery strategies and here is a summary of them:
- Backup and restore – to back up your data and restore them from the backup during disasters
- Pilot light – this involves keeping core services on standby and activating additional services only during disasters
- Warm standby – operates a complete backup system in standby mode, with live data continuously synced from the main environment
- Multi-site active/active – running a full, secondary production system, ready to serve traffic when needed
Guides on Setting Up Disaster Recovery with AWS Managed Services
We have already taken a look at the 4 major Disaster Recovery strategies offered by AWS. Now, let’s have a look at how to set all these architecture one by one:
Backup and Restore
To perform backup and restore on AWS, you can use Amazon S3 for general data and Amazon RDS for databases. Start by creating an S3 bucket through the AWS Management Console, where you can upload your files. If needed, enable versioning to keep multiple versions and set access policies or lifecycle rules. For database backup, create an Amazon RDS instance and enable automated backups, setting your desired retention period. You can also take manual snapshots for specific points in time. To restore, simply choose the backup from the RDS console and restore the database or perform point-in-time recovery to a specific moment.
Guides on Setting Up Disaster Recovery with AWS Managed Services
We have already taken a look at the 4 major Disaster Recovery strategies offered by AWS. Now, let’s have a look at how to set all these architecture one by one:
Backup and Restore
To perform backup and restore on AWS, you can use Amazon S3 for general data and Amazon RDS for databases. Start by creating an S3 bucket through the AWS Management Console, where you can upload your files. If needed, enable versioning to keep multiple versions and set access policies or lifecycle rules. For database backup, create an Amazon RDS instance and enable automated backups, setting your desired retention period. You can also take manual snapshots for specific points in time. To restore, simply choose the backup from the RDS console and restore the database or perform point-in-time recovery to a specific moment.EducationNest
