Tag: AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS)

In the digital era, ensuring business continuity through effective disaster recovery measures is crucial for organizations of all sizes. Setting up disaster recovery solutions manually, such as installing recovery agents on multiple servers, can be a significant and time-consuming task. Therefore, many customers are increasingly seeking automation not only to streamline common administrative tasks but […]

Enterprises strive to make sure that business critical applications, workloads, and data remain available during planned and unplanned downtime. When using the cloud, organizations must make sure to apply the same approach to business continuity and disaster recovery as they would with on-premises infrastructure. Customers on the cloud can leverage AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS […]

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) is the recommended service for disaster recovery to AWS. It’s the next generation of CloudEndure Disaster Recovery (CEDR), as CloudEndure Disaster Recovery technology was used to build Elastic Disaster Recovery. Now you can upgrade replicating source servers from CloudEndure Disaster Recovery to Elastic Disaster Recovery. This is accomplished via the CEDR Server […]

Disaster recovery (DR) solutions for workloads that are domain-joined to Microsoft Active Directory (AD) must take into account the AD requirements of those workloads. A domain-joined workload will expect to find an AD controller to provide keys services like DNS and security related services including user and machine-based authentication. If the AD requirements are not […]

Disasters due to natural calamities, application failures, service failures, human errors, or ransomware cause downtime for business applications as well as data loss and revenue impact. To help prepare for potential outages, companies running VMware on-premises are increasingly incorporating VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) into their hybrid cloud strategy. Disaster recovery (DR) is also a vital […]

When performing disaster recovery, you recover your original systems and IT infrastructure to their original state at an alternate, available site. When you recover your servers, the recovered servers should match the original compute infrastructure to reduce the risk of underprovisioning or overprovisioning your recovery environment. This improves the likelihood that your recovery servers have […]

By performing frequent disaster recovery (DR) tests and drills, your organization can prepare for unexpected IT outages caused by ransomware, human error, and other disruptions. Some organizations avoid DR testing because their testing procedures are time-consuming or costly, or because they cannot test without disrupting business. This can mean that they are unprepared to implement […]

Many companies are moving their workloads to AWS to benefit from its highly resilient, cost-effective nature. Although the cloud is highly resilient, it’s still beneficial to prepare for rare, but highly impactful disaster scenarios. Some companies want to put a disaster recovery (DR) solution in place but must maintain secure and private connectivity for security […]

Update (12/12/2022): Depending on your specific RTO and RPO requirements, we recommend evaluating the use of Elastic Disaster Recovery along with database native replication methods, such as SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) for SAP HANA. Disasters due to natural calamities, application failures, human errors, or ransomware cause not only downtime for business applications, but also […]

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 […]