Activities

This course includes presentations, demonstrations, and videos.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Explain the benefits of Elastic Disaster Recovery
• Recognize Elastic Disaster Recovery lifecycle phases and key concepts
• Configure Elastic Disaster Recovery to replicate workloads to AWS
• Perform the necessary steps to recover on AWS in the event of a disaster
• Adopt best practices for successful setup, operation, and recovery

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• Solutions architects and engineers deploying and operating disaster recovery
• IT stakeholders involved in setting up and operating a disaster recovery solution for their own organization or for that of a customer

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

Basic knowledge of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)General knowledge of disaster recovery

Course outline

Module 1: Introduction

• Objectives
• Elastic Disaster Recovery overview
• Elastic Disaster Recovery benefits
• Elastic Disaster Recovery lifecycle
• Video: Elastic Disaster Recovery network architecture

Module 2: Setup

• Preparing your environments
• Accessing the Elastic Disaster Recovery console
• Configuring the replication settings template
• Creating IAM user credentials
• Installing the AWS Replication Agent
• Configuring the launch settings
• Performing a recovery drill
• Best practices for setup

Module 3: Operation

• Monitoring
• Troubleshooting
• Best practices for operation

Module 4: Recovery

• Performing a disaster recovery failover
• Performing a failback

Module 5: Conclusion