AWS CustomerCast - Disaster Recovery

Disaster recovery is a solution for regaining access to your applications, files, and folders, after events like a natural disaster, security event, or other business disruptions. In this two-course curriculum, you will learn how information backup and, disaster recovery are important aspects of business continuity – i.e., the ability to maintain essential functions during and after an outage has occurred, and reestablish full function to the organization as quickly and smoothly as possible.

Research shows that companies typically assess their ability to recover data and applications after an outage event has already occurred. IDC estimates that up to half of all organizations would be unlikely to survive if hit by a disaster–such as technical and infrastructure failure, human error, security event, or natural disaster that rendered their data centers unusable. This is because fewer than half (48.4%) of applications are covered by a disaster recovery plan.

Organizations have not protected their environments with traditional (non-cloud) disaster recovery solutions for a variety of business and technical reasons that are exacerbated by cost and risk. This course explores how replacing dedicated backup data centers with cloud options removes the need for customers to hold expensive IT infrastructure and real estate, and allows IT departments to move to a consumption-based model for disaster recovery. Additionally, you’ll learn CloudEndure Disaster Recovery, an AWS product that continuously replicates machines (including operating system, system state configuration, databases, applications, and files) into a low-cost staging area, in conjunction with cloud backup storage can help regain access and functionality to your applications and data, after events like a natural disaster, security event, or other business disruptions.

• Course level: Foundational

• Duration: 60 minutes

Activities

This curriculum includes courses with videos.

Curriculum objectives

In this curriculum, you will learn to:

• What Disaster Recovery is, as well as its growing importance

• Common challenges in deploying a Disaster Recovery solution

• The benefits of the AWS for disaster recovery

• The benefit of cloud backup and long-term retention strategies to mitigate against data loss or corruption

• The value of AWS CloudEndure Disaster Recovery for fast, reliable recovery of physical, virtual, and cloud-based servers

• Characteristics of IT environments that CloudEndure serves

• How Cloud Endure works

• Overview of how to configure and test CloudEndureHow to leverage technical assistance and financial incentives for AWS backup and disaster recovery projects

Intended audience

This course is intended for a broad audience, including:

• CIOs

• CTOs

• VP/Director of IT

• VP/Director of Engineering

• Leaders who are involved in the management and operation of IT resources.

Prerequisites

There are no recommended prerequisites for this course.