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Disaster Recovery Solutions with AWS-Managed Services, Part 3: Multi-Site Active/Passive

AWS Disaster Recovery

The post also introduces a multi-site active/passive approach. The multi-site active/passive approach is best for customers who have business-critical workloads with higher availability requirements over other active/passive environments. You would just need to create the records and specify failover for the routing policy.

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New Book Review

Recovery Diva

Publisher : Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London. Book Review: Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management. Editors : Claire Connolly Knox and Brittany “Brie” Haupt Title : Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management: Concepts, Theories and Case Studies. link] April 2020.

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More on the Covid-19 Academic Gold Rush

Emergency Planning

This reminded me that perhaps 70 per cent of academic publishing is for personnel reasons (to get a job, keep a job, obtain a salary raise, or achieve promotion). I cleave to the old-fashioned view that publishing should take place to further the sharing of good ideas. We confront a new phenomenon: intra-disaster research publication.

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The United Kingdom's National Risk Register - 2023 Edition

Emergency Planning

This document was first published in 2008 and has been updated (somewhat irregularly) at roughly two-year intervals. e) The risks are prioritised by giving most weight to those associated with hostile activity. This is a simple example: others are more complex, but the intricacies do need to be confronted. (e)

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Updated 2022 edition of NFPA 1582, Standard on Comprehensive Occupational Medical Program for Fire Departments, now published and available

National Fire Protection Association

NFPA has now published an updated 2022 edition of NFPA 1582, which includes the changes from TIA 1582-22-1, establishing a single set of medical requirements and evaluations that are equally applicable to both members and candidates.

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Article by the Diva in South Korean Newspaper

Recovery Diva

Translated article from the South Korean newspaper The Segye Times , written by reporter Yeongjun Park from; published in Dec. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provides grants to state agencies, which in turn support local emergency management organizations and activities,” Rubin said. 26 (local time). “The U.S.

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

Source: Wikimedia Commons An interesting map was published by the US Geological Survey shortly after the Turkish-Syrian earthquakes. [1] 1] It showed (perhaps somewhat predictively) that there was only one tiny square of the vast affected area in which Modified Mercalli intensity (which is largely a measure of damage) reached 9.0,