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Document history for the AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery User Guide

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Document history for the AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery User Guide - AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

The following are the latest documentation updates for AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery. We update the documentation frequently to address the feedback that you send us.

Change Description Date

Updated AWS managed policies

Created new revisions of managed policies to support a change in authentication with EBS APIs.

January 6, 2025

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery - Flexible Instance Types feature

Release of Flexible Instance Types in AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (ASWS DRS). For more information see Flexible Instance Types

July 30, 2024

Updated AWS managed policies

Created new revisions of managed policies to support additional parameter types in SSM Parameters Store for post-launch actions. The following managed policies were updated:

May 19, 2024

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Support for AWS Outposts

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports AWS Outposts. For more information see: Working with AWS DRS and Outposts.

April 18, 2024

Updated AWS managed policy

Created a new revision of the AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryCrossAccountReplicationPolicy policy, to support replicating marketplace licenses to launched instances. January 28, 2024

Updated AWS managed policy

Created new revision of the AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryServiceRolePolicy policy, to support replicating marketplace licenses to launched instances. January 28, 2024

Updated AWS managed policies

Updated policies to support managed prefix lists for network replication and recovery. The following managed policies were updated:

January 3rd, 2024

Updated AWS managed policies

Created new revisions of managed policies to support DRS to GovCloud and added Sid to statements in managed policies. The following managed policies were updated:

November 27, 2023

Updated AWS managed policy

Created new revision of AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryCrossAccountReplicationPolicy policy to support DRS in GovCloud November 27, 2023

Updated AWS managed policy

Updated the AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryReadOnlyAccess policy to support describing additional post-launch actions. November 27, 2023
New AWS managed policy Added the AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryConsoleFullAccess_v2 policy to support running predefined post-launch actions from the console. November 27, 2023

Updated AWS managed policy

Updated the AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryServiceRolePolicy policy to support managed prefix lists for network replication and recovery. October 15, 2023
Updated AWS managed policy Updated the AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryConsoleFullAccess and AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryLaunchActionsPolicy policies to support recovery into existing instance. October 15, 2023

Updated AWS managed policy

Updated the AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryEc2InstancePolicy policy to allow sending installation result metrics to AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery. October 10, 2023

Updated AWS managed policy

Updated the AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryAgentInstallationPolicy policy to allow sending installation result metrics to AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery. October 10, 2023
New AWS managed policy Added the AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryLaunchActionsPolicy policy to support post-launch actions. September 13, 2023

Updated AWS managed policy

Updated the AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryReadOnlyAccess policy to support post-launch actions. September 13, 2023

Updated AWS managed policy

Updated the AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryEc2InstancePolicy policy to support network replication and recovery. June 13, 2023

Updated AWS managed policy

Updated the AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryAgentInstallationPolicy policy to support network replication and recovery. June 13, 2023

Updated AWS managed policy

Updated the AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryConsoleFullAccess policy to support network replication and recovery. June 13, 2023
New AWS managed policy Updated the AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryNetworkReplicationPolicy policy to support network replication and recovery. June 13, 2023

Updated AWS managed policy

Updated the AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryServiceRolePolicy policy to support network replication and recovery. June 13, 2023
New AWS managed policy Added the AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryCrossAccountReplicationPolicy policy to support cross-account failback. May 7, 2023

Updated AWS managed policy

Updated the AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryRecoveryInstancePolicy policy to support cross-account failback by the agent after reverse replication. May 7, 2023

Updated AWS managed policy

Updated the AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryEc2InstancePolicy policy to support cross-account replication by the agent. May 7, 2023

Updated AWS managed policy

Updated the AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryConsoleFullAccess policy to support default EC2 launch templates and bulk editing of source server EC2 launch templates. April 19, 2023

Updated AWS managed policy

Updated the AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryAgentPolicy policy to support the kernel upgrade feature. April 1, 2023
New AWS managed policy Added the AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryStagingAccountPolicy_v2 policy to support the recover of source servers into a separate target account and to allow failing back. December 11, 2022
Cross-Region failback and cross-Availability-Zone recovery

Added support for cross-Region failback and cross-Availability-Zone recovery.

November 27, 2022
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