Disaster recovery and automation
In the face of a disaster, it is important to ensure that your application’s traffic is seamlessly directed to a healthy and reliable endpoint. At the forefront is Amazon Route 53. Useful for its health-checking features and DNS failover capabilities, Route 53 can skillfully reroute the traffic from unhealthy resources to healthy ones, fostering enhanced availability for your application.
With regard to your data durability, Amazon S3 comes in as a perfect choice. S3 even allows for the automatic replication of data across various regions. So, even during region-specific adversaries, you can bolster your overall DR strategy by making use of S3.
With that, let’s dive deep into the recovery methodologies. AWS presents a spectrum of disaster recovery strategies:
- Pilot light: This strategy is like a dormant gas ready to ignite. In this strategy, you keep a minimal version of your environment always running. When a disaster strikes...
