A disaster recovery (DR) procedure is a critical component of each organization's business continuity plan. The failure to appropriately plan for a datacenter outage can have a profoundly negative impact on a business, as recent public events have indicated. From IT executives to system administrators, it's imperative that employees have an in-depth understanding of their organization's DR plan. This entry-level course reviews the benefits of the public cloud—specifically, Amazon Web Services (AWS)—in implementing a DR plan. It also covers AWS-specific DR concepts, shows how to configure the core AWS services needed for DR, and provides demos that give you hands-on experience with using AWS services to build a reliable DR environment.
Topics include:
- DR in the public cloud
- Recovery time objective (RTO)
- Recovery point objective (RPO)
- AWS platform services that support DR
- Comparing the four DR architectures
- Differences between high availability and DR
- Cold DR procedure
- Pilot light DR procedure
- Warm standby procedure
- Multisite DR failover
