Overview
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Learn how to use Amazon Web Services for disaster recovery (DR). Discover how to configure backups and perform cold failover, pilot light, and warm standby recoveries.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- How to recover when things go wrong on AWS
- What you need to know
- The difference between backup and disaster recovery
- Define recovery requirements
- The role of the public cloud
- Why use AWS as a backup platform
- The 3-2-1 rule
- The Storage Gateway
- Acquiring the AWS Storage Gateway
- Configuring the AWS Storage Gateway
- Configuring a backup application
- Creating snapshots of EC2 virtual machines
- Applying a snapshot to an EC2 instance
- Deleting a snapshot of an EC2 instance
- Creating a snapshot lifecycle policy
- An introduction to regions
- The four types of failover
- An introduction to cold failover
- Preparing for a cold failover
- Replicating a VM
- Performing a cold failover
- An Introduction to the demo environment
- Create a VPC with public and private subnets
- Create an additional subnet
- Create a VPC security group for the web server
- Create a VPC security group for the database
- Create a database subnet group
- Create a database instance
- Create an EC2 instance
- Install an Apache web server
- Set file permissions on the Apache web server
- Connect the web server to the database instance
- An introduction to pilot light recovery
- An introduction to read replicas
- Create a read replica
- Promote a read replica
- An introduction to warm and hot failover
- Types of DNS routing policies
- Create a Windows Server instance
- Deploy Internet Information Services
- Map a domain name to the web server
- Create a web server health check
- Create a passive web server
- Failover to a passive web server
- Testing the failover process
- Next steps
