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Minimizing Dependencies in a Disaster Recovery Plan

AWS Disaster Recovery

The Availability and Beyond whitepaper discusses the concept of static stability for improving resilience. What if the very tools that we rely on for failover are themselves impacted by a DR event? Failover plan dependencies and considerations. Relying on an automated health check to control Regional failover can be tricky.

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Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part I: Strategies for Recovery in the Cloud

AWS Disaster Recovery

Figure 2 shows the four strategies for DR that are highlighted in the DR whitepaper. All requests are now switched to be routed there in a process called “failover.” For tighter RTO/RPO objectives, the data is maintained live, and the infrastructure is fully or partially deployed in the recovery site before failover.

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How to Protect Your Database with Zerto

Zerto

Application-consistent points in time will be indicated as a checkpoint in the Zerto journal of changes to ensure visibility when performing a move, failover, or failover test in Zerto. Read the full whitepaper on Protecting Oracle databases on VMware with Zerto.

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The Time Is Now—Get Out of Ransomware Jail!

Zerto

Easily perform failover and backup testing quickly, without disruption. Whitepaper. Lower risk with instant, non-disruptive testing. Test often, test anytime. Zerto allows you to take the guesswork and risk out of the process with instant, non-disruptive testing. Get out of ransomware jail and try the Zerto Free Edition. Sophos Ltd.

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Why Containers are Susceptible to Ransomware (& How Zerto Can Help!)

Zerto

Check out the IDC whitepaper The State of Ransomware and Disaster Preparedness. In the event of an outage due to a ransomware attack completely taking your primary site down, Zerto for Kubernetes helps users fight back by performing a failover live operation. The Zerto for Kubernetes failover test workflow can help check that box.

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Types of Backup: Select Wisely to Avoid Costly Data Loss

Zerto

Perform an entire site or application failover, failback, and move without data loss or impact to production. Also, read our technical comparison whitepaper on Zerto vs. traditional periodic backup technology. This all happens from a local journal on the production site. See links below: Zerto Free On-Demand Labs.

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Using Route 53 Private Hosted Zones for Cross-account Multi-region Architectures

AWS Disaster Recovery

This architecture pattern follows the option of the “Multi-Account Decentralized” model as described in the whitepaper Hybrid Cloud DNS options for Amazon VPC. Failover routing policy is set up in the PHZ and failover records are created. This architecture involves three key components: 1. Considerations.