Architecting for Disaster Recovery on AWS Outposts Racks with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Compute Blog
This article discusses how to architect disaster recovery (DR) solutions for workloads running on AWS Outposts using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Service (AWS DRS). It covers several DR architectures enabled by AWS DRS and the benefits of each.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Prerequisites for using AWS DRS with Outposts
- Planning for failure by defining Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
- How AWS DRS integrates with Outposts
- DR from on-premises to Outposts
- DR from Outposts to an AWS Region
- DR from an AWS Region to Outposts
- DR between two Outposts (including bidirectional replication)
- Architecture considerations like storage planning, monitoring, and using Recovery Plans
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