AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS)
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) replicates critical workloads to AWS with minimal downtime by continuously replicating block-level data from your servers. It supports both physical and virtual servers, enabling rapid recovery during disruptions.
Core Benefits​
Business Resilience: Minimizes downtime and data loss with continuous replication, ensuring critical applications remain available.
Streamlined Disaster Recovery: Simplifies the recovery process with automated failover and non-disruptive testing capabilities.
Cost Optimization: Eliminates the significant costs associated with maintaining a secondary, physical disaster recovery data center.
Use Cases​
Healthcare Data Protection​
Hospital systems can use DRS to maintain compliance and protect patient records by replicating on-premises servers to AWS. This ensures critical medical data remains accessible during outages and helps meet strict healthcare regulations.
Financial Services Continuity​
A regional bank can implement DRS to protect core banking applications by continuously replicating transaction processing systems. This facilitates quick recovery if their primary data center fails, maintaining customer trust and regulatory compliance.
Manufacturing Operations Recovery​
A global manufacturer can employ DRS to protect production planning systems. By replicating factory management servers to AWS, they ensure minimal disruption to supply chain operations during disasters and can validate their recovery strategy with regular failover testing.
Key Features​
- Continuous Replication: Performs block-level replication of servers to a low-cost staging area in AWS.
- Minimal RPO/RTO: Achieves Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) of seconds and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) of minutes.
- Broad Source Support: Protects physical, virtual (VMware, Hyper-V), and cloud-based servers.
- Non-Disruptive Testing: Allows for regular, non-disruptive disaster recovery drills to validate recovery procedures.
- Automated Failover: Simplifies the process of launching recovery instances in AWS during a disaster event.
Elastic Disaster Recovery provides a highly automated, cost-effective, and reliable solution for protecting critical applications from downtime, ensuring business continuity with minimal data loss.
Use case:
Ideal for any organization requiring robust disaster recovery for critical applications, from healthcare and finance to manufacturing, without the expense of a secondary site.