Disaster recovery (DR) is one of most important use cases. Having your own DR site in the cloud ready and on standby, without having to pay for the hardware, power, bandwidth, cooling, space and system administration makes the AWS cloud the perfect solution for DR. You can quickly recover from a disaster and ensure business continuity of your applications while keeping your costs down.

This paper highlights various AWS features and services that you can leverage for your DR processes and shows different architectural approaches on how to recover from a disaster. Depending on your Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) – two commonly used industry terms when building your DR strategy – you have the flexibility to choose the right approach that fits your budget.