Recovery using AWS DRS

AWS DRS is a service offered by AWS that helps organizations recover from outages and disasters by replicating their applications and data in a secondary location. It provides a managed service for DR, allowing customers to easily set up, manage, and orchestrate the recovery of their applications and data in the event of an outage or disaster. We covered how to plan for DR in Chapter 14, and you can use AWS DRS to implement it.

AWS DRS architecture

The following is the architecture of AWS DRS:

Figure 15.3 – AWS DRS architecture

The following is an overview of how AWS DRS works:

1. Source environment setup:
   1. Set up your source environment, which includes your applications, data, and infrastructure.
   2. Install the DRS agent on your source environment, which enables data replication and monitoring.
   3. Configure the agent to collect data about the source environment, including the following:
   • Server configurations: Collect data...