AWS Managed Services (AMS) Advanced: Disaster Recovery

Preparing for disaster is critical to any organization’s business continuity planning. AWS Managed Services (AMS) Advanced customers partner with AMS Advanced to design, implement, and test a disaster recovery (DR) strategy tailored to their business operations. In this course, you will learn the advantages of implementing disaster recovery with AMS Advanced and how to perform the most common DR tasks.

• Course level: Intermediate

• Duration: 1 hour

Activities

This course consists of real-world scenarios, demonstrations, and videos.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Identify how AMS supports your DR strategy

• Back up managed resources using AWS Backup

• Replicate backups across Amazon Web Services (AWS) Regions

• Restore managed resources from backup

• Replicate and restore Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances with CloudEndure

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• Existing AMS customers and Partners

o Solution architects

o IT and infrastructure support

o Security personnel

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Basic understanding of business continuity and disaster recovery

• Experience working with IT infrastructure, backup, and restore procedures

• Experience working with AMS processes, such as accessing the console and submitting Requests for Change (RFCs)

• Basic understanding of CloudEndure services

Course outline

Lesson 1: Introduction

• Narrated animation: introduce typical customer pain points and challenges with disaster recovery

• Explain benefits of working with AMS Advanced to protect resources

Lesson 2: Create Backup Plans

• Demonstration: Create backup plans through AMS Advanced Change Management

Lesson 3: Copy Recovery Points Cross-Region

• Demonstration: Configure AWS Backup to copy recovery points across AWS Regions through AWS Advanced Change Management

Lesson 4: Restore an EC2 Instance

• Demonstration: Restore an EC2 instance in a DR Region through AMS Advanced Change Management

Lesson 5: Restore an RDS Database

• Demonstration: Restore an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) database in a DR Region through AMS Advanced Change Management

Lesson 6: Replicate an EC2 Instance with CloudEndure

• Demonstration: Implement block-level replication for an EC2 instance with CloudEndure and AMS Advanced Change Management

Lesson 7: Restore an EC2 Instance with CloudEndure

• Demonstration: Restore a replicated EC2 instance with CloudEndure and AMS Advanced Change Management