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Guidance for Disaster Recovery for VMware Workloads on AWS

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Overview

This Guidance demonstrates how to implement disaster recovery for VMware workloads to AWS using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS). It helps organizations establish continuous replication and automated failover capabilities for both on-premises VMware environments and Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS). By leveraging private connectivity and the provided CloudFormation template, you can perform recovery drills and execute failovers without exposing traffic to the public internet, delivering a flexible and secure foundation that adapts to your organization's specific resilience and business continuity requirements.

Benefits

    Deploy a complete VMware disaster recovery solution in minutes using AWS CloudFormation and AWS Lambda. Eliminate manual configuration while establishing secure connectivity between your on-premises environment and AWS.

    Protect your VMware workloads with continuous replication to AWS. Test recovery procedures without disrupting production systems and failover quickly when disasters occur.

    Keep all disaster recovery traffic private using VPC endpoints and Site-to-Site VPN. Replicate data securely to AWS while maintaining control over your network architecture and access policies.

How it works

This guidance displays a comprehensive approach to disaster recovery for VMware workloads to AWS, covering strategic planning, technical implementation, and cost optimization across the entire DR lifecycle.

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