Summary

In this chapter, we discussed the significance of resilience in building reliable and robust applications. We introduced the resilience lifecycle framework, developed by AWS to help organizations continuously improve the resilience of their applications.

We also highlighted the benefits of following the resilience lifecycle framework, including reduced risk of downtime and data loss, improved operational efficiency, enhanced customer experience, and increased confidence and trust.

To achieve resilience, organizations should view it as an ongoing process, continuously monitoring, tuning, and improving their resilience strategies. Tracking important metric parameters such as SLA, RTO, and RPO enables a scientific approach to resilience goals.

We explored the ORR process, a checklist of questions designed to help organizations identify and solve business problems related to resilience.

Finally, the chapter emphasized the importance of incorporating security measures...