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Improve the resiliency with AWS Fault Injection service and Amazon ARC Region switch

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This article discusses improving application resiliency using AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) and Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region switch, focusing on automated cross-Region failover strategies.

  • Demonstrates a multi-Region, three-tier web architecture using Active/Passive deployment
  • Implements Amazon ARC to orchestrate seamless regional recovery
  • Uses AWS Synthetic canaries for continuous website performance monitoring
  • Employs AWS Fault Injection Service to simulate regional network failures
  • Enables automatic detection and response to regional outages

The solution provides an automated disaster recovery approach that maintains application availability during regional failures, offering minimal disruption and systematic testing of recovery procedures.



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