For any enterprise, unplanned downtime can have a devastating impact. Unplanned downtime not only impacts the ongoing business, but it can also create an adverse impact on the future of the organization. Any catastrophe or disaster can bring a city or a region to a standstill and can impact businesses for a prolonged period of time. It is critical for organizations to plan for disasters that may halt their business. AWS provides a number of services and features that can be used to overcome unplanned downtime arising out of natural disasters or human error.
DR is the process of designing an architecture that is able to recover from any disaster situation within a stipulated time. The cost of DR planning is inversely proportional to the time required to recover the infrastructure. Traditionally, in the case of a private data center, it may be required to create similar...