I work for a very large organization and we have many systems that live in a single region in AWS, us-east-1. While we use multi-AZ RDS instances and EC2 instances across multiple AZ's we don't have regular backups to another AWS region. If us-east-1 was obliterated, we would lose a significant number of mission-critical systems. My questions:
1. Is it safe to rely on AWS for DR across multiple AZs or must we plan for a whole region being obliterated?
2. Do you recommend any tools or practices that we can adopt to help us adopt a good-enough DR strategy? It would be acceptable if getting back online business took a week or a few.
1. Is it safe to rely on AWS for DR across multiple AZs or must we plan for a whole region being obliterated? 2. Do you recommend any tools or practices that we can adopt to help us adopt a good-enough DR strategy? It would be acceptable if getting back online business took a week or a few.