What is elastic disaster recovery AWS?

Disaster recovery is the process by which an organization anticipates and addresses technology-related disasters.

The process of preparing for and recovering from any event that prevents a workload or system from fulfilling its business objectives in its primary deployed location, such as power outages, natural events, or security issues. Disaster recovery targets are measured with Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO). The failures handled by disaster recovery tend to be rarer than those covered by high availability and are larger scale disaster events. Disaster recovery includes an organization's procedures and policies to recover quickly from such events.

Why is disaster recovery important?

A disaster is an unexpected problem resulting in a slowdown, interruption, or network outage in an IT system.

Outages come in many forms, including the following examples:

An earthquake or fire
Technology failures
System incompatibilities
Simple human error 
Intentional unauthorized access by third parties

These disasters disrupt business operations, cause customer service problems, and result in revenue loss. A disaster recovery plan helps organizations respond promptly to disruptive events and provides key benefits.

Ensures business continuity

When a disaster strikes, it can be detrimental to all aspects of the business and is often costly. It also interrupts normal business operations, as the team’s productivity is reduced due to limited access to tools they require to work. A disaster recovery plan prompts the quick restart of backup systems and data so that operations can continue as scheduled. 

Enhances system security

Integrating data protection, backup, and restoring processes into a disaster recovery plan limits the impact of ransomware, malware, or other security risks for business. For example, data backups to the cloud have numerous built-in security features to limit suspicious activity before it impacts the business. 

Improves customer retention

If a disaster occurs, customers question the reliability of an organization’s security practices and services. The longer a disaster impacts a business, the greater the customer frustration. A good disaster recovery plan mitigates this risk by training employees to handle customer inquiries. Customers gain confidence when they observe that the business is well-prepared to handle any disaster. 

Reduces recovery costs

Depending on its severity, a disaster causes both loss of income and productivity. A robust disaster recovery plan avoids unnecessary losses as systems return to normal soon after the incident. For example, cloud storage solutions are a cost-effective data backup method. You can manage, monitor, and maintain data while the business operates as usual. 

AWS Disaster Recovery Techniques

Disaster recovery focuses on getting applications up and running within minutes of an outage. Organizations address the following three components.

Prevention

To reduce the likelihood of a technology-related disaster, businesses need a plan to ensure that all key systems are as reliable and secure as possible. Because humans cannot control a natural disaster, prevention only applies to network problems, security risks, and human errors.

Anticipation

Anticipation includes predicting possible future disasters, knowing the consequences, and planning appropriate disaster recovery procedures. It is challenging to predict what can happen, but you can come up with a disaster recovery solution with knowledge from previous situations and analysis.

Mitigation

Mitigation is how a business responds after a disaster scenario. A mitigation strategy aims to reduce the negative impact on normal business procedures. All key stakeholders know what to do in the event of a disaster, including the following steps.

An earthquake or fire
Technology failures
System incompatibilities
Simple human error 
Intentional unauthorized access by third parties

AWS Disaster Recovery

Setup Process

An effective disaster recovery plan includes the following key elements.

Communication

The team responsible for creating, implementing, and managing the disaster recovery plan must communicate with each other about their roles and responsibilities. If a disaster happens, the team should know who is responsible for what and how to communicate with employees, customers, and each other.

Data backups

The disaster recovery plan determines how you back up your data. Options include cloud storage, vendor-supported backups, and internal offsite data backups. To account for natural disaster events, backups should not be onsite. The team should determine who will back up the data.

Testing & optimization

You must test your disaster recovery plan at least once or twice per year. You can document and fix any gaps that you identify in these tests. Similarly, you should update all security and data protection strategies frequently to prevent inadvertent unauthorized access.

Recovery timeline

The disaster recovery team must decide on goals and time frames for when systems should be back to normal operations after a disaster. Some industries’ timelines may be longer than others, while others need to be back to normal in a matter of minutes.

Benefits of Elastic Disaster Recovery

A disaster recovery team includes a collaborative team of experts, such as IT specialists and individuals in leadership roles, who will be crucial to the team. You should have somebody on the team who takes care of the following key areas.

Crisis management

The individual in charge of crisis management implements the disaster recovery plan right away. They communicate with other team members and customers, and they coordinate the disaster recovery process.

Business continuity

The business continuity manager ensures that the disaster recovery plan aligns with results from business impact analysis. They include business continuity planning in the disaster recovery strategy.

Impact recovery and assessment

Impact assessment managers are experts in IT infrastructure and business applications. They assess and fix network infrastructure, servers, and databases.

How Does AWS Provides Disasters Recovery?

How can AWS help with disaster recovery?

Elastic Disaster Recovery is a disaster recovery service that reduces downtime and data loss with the fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications. It can decrease your RPO to seconds and RTO to just a few minutes. You can quickly recover operations after unexpected events, such as software issues or data center hardware failures. It is also a flexible solution, so you can add or remove replicating servers and test various applications without specialized skill sets.

Reduces costs by removing idle recovery site resources, so you pay for the full disaster recovery site only when needed
Converts cloud-based applications to run natively on AWS
Restores applications within minutes, at their most up-to-date state, or from a previous point in time in case of security incidents

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What is elastic disaster recovery AWS?

Why is disaster recovery important?

Ensures business continuity

Enhances system security

Improves customer retention

Reduces recovery costs

AWS Disaster Recovery Techniques

Prevention

Anticipation

Mitigation

AWS Disaster Recovery

Setup Process

Communication

Data backups

Testing & optimization

Recovery timeline

Benefits of Elastic Disaster Recovery

Crisis management

Business continuity

Impact recovery and assessment

How Does AWS Provides Disasters Recovery?

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What is elastic disaster recovery AWS?

Why is disaster recovery important?

Ensures business continuity

Enhances system security

Improves customer retention

Reduces recovery costs

AWS Disaster Recovery Techniques

Prevention

Anticipation

Mitigation

AWS Disaster Recovery

Setup Process

Communication

Data backups

Testing & optimization

Recovery timeline

Benefits of Elastic Disaster Recovery

Crisis management

Business continuity

Impact recovery and assessment

How Does AWS Provides Disasters Recovery?

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