How Merck Automated AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Initialization and Monitoring

This article discusses how Merck, a global bio-pharmaceutical company, automated the initialization and monitoring of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) to enhance resilience and productivity of their manufacturing processes.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Overview of the automated solution using AWS CloudFormation to initialize AWS DRS while meeting organizational requirements for subnets, security groups, and tagging
• Details of the monitoring solution that uses Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Lambda, Amazon EventBridge, and Amazon DynamoDB to monitor replication status, send alerts, and generate daily reports across multiple AWS accounts
• The benefits of the automation, including improved productivity, reduced manual errors, and meeting recovery time objectives (RTOs)
• Conclusion highlighting the success of the solution in consistently meeting RTOs and recovery point objectives (RPOs) for applications using AWS DRS