You're reading from AWS for System Administrators Build, automate, and manage your infrastructure on the most popular cloud platform – AWS

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800201538

Length 388 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Prashant Lakhera

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: AWS Services and Tools

2. Chapter 1: Setting Up the AWS Environment FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Protecting Your AWS Account Using IAM

4. Section 2: Building the Infrastructure

5. Chapter 3: Creating a Data Center in the Cloud Using VPC

6. Chapter 4: Scalable Compute Capacity in the Cloud via EC2

7. Section 3: Adding Scalability and Elasticity to the Infrastructure

8. Chapter 5: Increasing an Application's Fault Tolerance with Elastic Load Balancing

9. Chapter 6: Increasing Application Performance Using AWS Auto Scaling

10. Chapter 7: Creating a Relational Database in the Cloud using AWS Relational Database Service (RDS)

11. Section 4: The Monitoring, Metrics, and Backup Layers

12. Chapter 8: Monitoring AWS Services Using CloudWatch and SNS

13. Chapter 9: Centralizing Logs for Analysis

14. Chapter 10: Centralizing Cloud Backup Solution

15. Chapter 11: AWS Disaster Recovery Solutions

16. Chapter 12: AWS Tips and Tricks

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Chapter 11: AWS Disaster Recovery Solutions

In the previous chapter, we learned about the backup solutions offered by AWS. This chapter extends that concept further, and will show us how to use backup during disaster recovery (DR).

DR refers to planning that aims to protect an organization from any unfortunate events that can disrupt its services. These events can be power outages, natural disasters, equipment failure, or cyberattacks. A DR plan will ensure that critical business functions will continue to operate or recover quickly despite severe disasters. DR enables the continuation of infrastructure and systems following a disaster. DR is a hot topic for several reasons. There are some applications that we never thought to put under DR because of their noncriticality or because they were too expensive to put in an on-premises environment. The cloud provides an effective, economical solution—for example, storing 1 GB of data in Amazon Glacier will cost you $0.004 per month...