Planning for Disaster Recovery in AWS - Episode 22

Learn how to plan for and mitigate disasters in AWS environments in this 26-minute video. Explore key concepts like Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), and discover essential storage and backup solutions including S3 Cross-Region replication, EBS volume snapshots, and file system replication. Dive into strategies for compute capacity recovery, network resilience, and database recovery. Examine automation services like CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, and AWS OpsWorks. Understand four critical disaster recovery strategies: Backup and Restore, Pilot Light, Warm Standby, and Multi-site. Learn about AWS Storage Gateway and review common disaster recovery patterns to enhance your AWS architecture's resilience and reliability.

Intro
Planning for failures
Avoiding and planning for disasters
Using the Well-Architected Framework design principles
Recovery Point objectives RPO
Recovery time objective RTO
Plan for disaster recovery
Storage and backup building blocks
S3 Cross-Region replication
EBS volume snapshots
File system replication
Compute Capacity recovery
Strategies for disaster recovery
Networking design for resilience
Databases and recovery
Automation Services: CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk and AWS OpsWorks
Four disaster recovery strategies: Backup and restore, Pilot light, Warm Standby and Multi-site
AWS Storage Gateway
Summary of common DR patterns