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Author: Daniel Covey
Daniel Covey is a Solutions Architect with AWS who has spent the last 8 years helping customers protect their workloads during a Disaster. He has worked with CloudEndure before and after the acquisition by AWS, and continues to offer guidance to customers who want to ensure their data is safe from ransomware and disasters.
Automating disaster recovery of Amazon RDS and Amazon EC2 instances
Complex environments can sometimes feel like they require complex disaster recovery (DR) solutions, which usually consist of multiple DR offerings from different vendors that may not interact with each other. There are many ways to build a DR solution in the cloud. Luckily, with AWS, you can easily configure multiple DR services and orchestrate them […]
Disaster recovery monitoring of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Monitoring and troubleshooting disaster recovery (DR) solutions is a critical component of any DR strategy. The ability to receive alerts and status updates is imperative when it comes to limiting downtime and maintaining operations. Often, monitoring a DR solution is a post-deployment afterthought. Administrators must be logged in to the tool to see if it’s […]
Automating CloudEndure Disaster Recovery blueprint changes for testing and recovery
Non-disruptive testing of a disaster recovery (DR) solution is critical to ensuring frequent and effective validation of that solution. This can be difficult with traditional DR solutions, which can lead to a lack of testing and even a failed recovery during a disaster. To perform non-disruptive testing of DR solutions, companies need a scalable way […]
Tracking CloudEndure Disaster Recovery resources with AWS Cost Explorer and cost allocation tags
CloudEndure Disaster Recovery is a block level replication tool that uses Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, and EBS Snapshot resources to create a safe and secure disaster recovery solution for customers. The CloudEndure Disaster Recovery console is purpose built to focus on disaster recovery, but does not provide visibility into underlying infrastructure costs. This means that […]
Enhanced disaster recovery monitoring with CloudEndure and Amazon CloudWatch
Update (March 4, 2022): Updated Amazon CloudWatch events section to utilize Amazon EventBridge rules instead, allowing you to further customize your serverless event architecture. AWS is also deprecating the requests module in botocore to improve flexibility and performance, and added the ability to use Layers within AWS Lambda to continue using this module. Code has […]