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Getting started with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

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Disaster recovery overview

The general process is:

  1. Install the AWS Replication Agent on the source server.

  2. Wait until initial sync is finished.

  3. Launch drill instances. Perform acceptance drills on the servers

  4. Initiate a failover by redirecting traffic.

  5. Confirm that the Recovery instance was launched successfully.

  6. To recover your data, initiate a failback.

  7. Complete the failback

  8. Return to normal operations.

Resources

The following free technical trainings are available for DRS:

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