A Pilot Light disaster recovery strategy for WordPress
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This article outlines a Pilot Light disaster recovery strategy for WordPress websites hosted on AWS. It describes how to maintain site availability and minimize data loss during outages by replicating data and resources across AWS Regions.
Specifically, the article covers:
- An explanation of Pilot Light DR strategy and its benefits
- Challenges in implementing a cross-Region DR strategy for WordPress
- Key AWS services used, such as Amazon EFS Replication, Aurora Global Database, EC2 Auto Scaling Groups, S3 cross-Region replication, Route 53 DNS failover, and automation with CloudWatch, Step Functions, and Lambda
- Architecture details for the primary and recovery Regions
- Automated failover and failback procedures using Step Functions
- Importance of regular testing of the DR plan
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