Running resiliency assessments from Resiliency widget - AWS Resilience Hub

Running resiliency assessments from Resiliency widget

For applications created in myApplications widget, you can now run resiliency assessments from the Resiliency widget and AWS Resilience Hub console. For more information about running resiliency assessments from AWS Resilience Hub console, see Running resiliency assessments in AWS Resilience Hub.

To run a resiliency assessment for an existing myApplications application from Resiliency widget for the first time

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console.

  2. Expand the left sidebar and choose myApplications.

  3. Select the application for which you want to run assessment.

    As a prerequisite, ensure that you have added the Resiliency widget in your AWS Console. To add this widget, complete the following steps.

    1. On the upper or lower right of the Console Home dashboard, choose +Add widgets.

    2. Choose the drag indicator, represented by six vertical dots in the upper left of the widget title bar, and then drag it to your Console Home dashboard.

  4. Choose Assess application.

  5. To select an existing IAM role that will be used for accessing resources in the current account, select Use an IAM role and then select an IAM role from the Select an IAM role dropdown list.

    If you want to use current IAM user to discover your application resources, choose Use the current IAM user permissions and select I understand that I must manually configure permissions to enable the required functionality within AWS Resilience Hub in Use the current IAM user to discover application resources section.

  6. Choose Assess.

    Alternatively, turn on Automatically assess daily to enable AWS Resilience Hub to assess your application daily without any additional costs.

    AWS Resilience Hub performs the following actions:

    • Creates an application in AWS Resilience Hub and automatically discovers and maps the associated resources.

    • Creates and assigns a new resiliency policy with pre-defined values for recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO). That is, four hours for RTO and one hour for RPO. After you generate an assessment, you can modify the resiliency policy or assign a different policy from the AWS Resilience Hub console. For more information about updating resiliency policy and attaching a different policy, see Managing resiliency policies.

    • Assesses the resilience of the application against RTO and RPO, and continuously monitors resources and configuration changes, and publishes the results.

    Note

    Before starting assessments, it is advisable to evaluate the potential costs involved in running assessments using AWS Resilience Hub. For detailed pricing information, see the AWS Resilience Hub pricing.

To rerun a resiliency assessment for an existing myApplications application from Resiliency widget

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console.

  2. Expand the left sidebar and choose myApplications.

  3. Select the application you want to reassess.

    As a prerequisite, ensure that you have added the Resiliency widget in your AWS Console. To add this widget, complete the following steps.

    1. On the upper or lower right of the Console Home dashboard, choose +Add widgets.

    2. Choose the drag indicator, represented by six vertical dots in the upper left of the widget title bar, and then drag it to your Console Home dashboard.

  4. Choose Reassess from the Resiliency widget.

    Alternatively, turn on Automatically assess daily to enable AWS Resilience Hub to assess your application daily without any additional costs.