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Joe Chapman

Author: Joe Chapman

Joe is a Sr. Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services. He primarily serves AWS EdTech customers, providing architectural guidance and best practice recommendations for new and existing workloads. Outside of work, he enjoys going on new adventures while traveling the world.

How to choose the best disaster recovery option for your Amazon Aurora MySQL cluster

August 2025: This post was reviewed for accuracy. There are many different ways to achieve disaster recovery objectives based on business requirements, but finding the best option for a particular situation can get overwhelming. The innovation and commercial-grade features that come with Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition expands these options even further. This post outlines options […]