AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery or AWS Backup

Intro

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/disaster-recovery-with-aws-managed-services-part-ii-multi-region-backup-and-restore/

Summary but a bit outdated

https://jayendrapatil.com/aws-disaster-recovery-whitepaper/

Description

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

• Disaster Recovery Service DRS - supports low RTO RPO with agents.
• Replicates storage.
• Logs to CLoudWatch the progress.

• Elastic Disaster Recovery replication begins with an initial sync. During the initial sync, the AWS Replication Agent replicates all the data from the source disks to the appropriate resource in the staging area subnet.
• Continuous replication continues indefinitely after the initial sync is complete.

Cloudendure

https://www.cloudendure.com/ is an aquired company.

AWS Backup

For comparison:

• taking backups can happen once in 12 hours
• snapshot restore - takes 30 minutes to complete
• feasible for cold data

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