AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery introduces Recovery Plans for orchestrated application recovery

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) Release Notes

AWS DRS now offers Recovery Plans, automating the sequential launch of multi-server applications during recovery and drills. This feature addresses challenges for customers running applications with specific server launch order requirements.

New Features

• Recovery Plans: Automate the sequential launch of multi-server applications during recovery and drills.
• Group servers into sequential steps with configurable wait times.
• Run plans in a non-disruptive drill mode to validate procedures.
• Add approval steps for human oversight.
• Monitor progress in real time.

What to do

• Define recovery sequences once and run them with a single action.
• Group servers into sequential steps with configurable wait times.
• Run plans in drill mode to validate procedures.
• Add approval steps where needed.
• Monitor recovery progress in real time.

Recovery Plans are available in all AWS Regions where AWS DRS is offered, at no additional cost beyond standard DRS usage.

Source: AWS release notes

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