The objective of this session is to enable customers with any level of DR experience to gain actionable guidance to advance their business up the ladder of DR readiness. AWS enables fast disaster recovery of critical on-premises IT systems without incurring the complexity and expense of a second physical site. With 28 availability zones in 11 regions around the world and a broad set of services, AWS can deliver rapid recovery of on-premises IT infrastructure and data. During this session we will walk you through the ascending levels of DR options made possible with AWS and review the technologies and services that help deliver various DR capabilities, starting from cloud backups all the way up to hot site DR. We will also explore various DR architectures and the balance of recovery time and cost.

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Disaster Recovery of On-­Premises IT
Infrastructure with AWS
Rich Uhl
Enterprise Solutions Architect

2. Session agenda
• Context: on-­premises Disaster Recovery (DR) using AWS
• Why AWS for recovery of on-­premises IT infrastructure
• The ascending levels of DR
• DR scenarios
• Q&A panel
• $1000 Giveaway

3. Terminology
Business Continuity
Business Continuity ensures an
organization's critical business functions
continue to operate or recover quickly
despite serious incidents.
Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery (DR) enables the
recovery or continuation of vital technology
infrastructure and systems following a
natural or human-­induced disaster.
Recovery Point Objective Recovery Time Objective
RTO is a targeted duration of which a
business process must be restored after a
disaster or disruption.
RPO is the maximum targeted period in
which data might be lost from an IT
service due to a major incident.

4. Understanding RTO and RPO
Disaster
Down time
Transactions lost
RPO
a
RTO

5. Plan for various types of disasters

6. History of DR
There have been many challenges for traditional DR for
enterprises
• Building and maintaining regional data centers
• Failed DR tests
• Not meeting RPO & RTO
• High technical debt

7. AWS compared to traditional disaster recovery
Conventional
• High cost to build disaster recovery
sites or data centers (CAPEX)
• High cost of storage, backup,
archival and retrieval tools, and
processes (OPEX)
• Difficult planning, procurement and
deployment
• Challenging to verify DR plans
• Single level of DR across the
organization
AWS
• Low cost upfront investment
(CAPEX)
• On-­demand costs (OPEX)
• Consistent experience across AWS
environments
• Recovery automation
• Separate levels of DR per
application or business unit

8. DR topology map
ELB/Appliance
EC2/Auto scaling
Route 53
Load Balancers
Web/App Servers
Your Data Centers
DNS
DB failover nodes
AD failover nodes
Availability zones
Multi-­regionDisaster Recovery
Data Centers
AD/Authentication
Database Servers

9. Ascending levels of DR options
Backup &
Restore
Pilot Light
Hot Standby
Multi-­Site
Backup of on-­
premises data to
AWS to use in a
DR event
Replicate data and
minimal running
services into AWS,
ready to take over
and flare up
Replicate data and
services into AWS
ready to take over
Replicated and
load balanced
environments that
are both actively
taking production
traffic
RPO
a
RTO
COST
24 hours 24 hours
$
RPO
a
RTO
COST
12 hours 4 hours
$$
RPO
a
RTO
COST
1-­4 hours 15 min
$$$
RPO
a
RTO
COST
<15 min 0-­5 min
$$$$
Business continuity
begins
Un-­interrupted Business
continuity

10. Backup & Restore Pilot Light Hot Standby Multi-­Site
S3Storage
Gateway
Glacier EBS
Volumes
Route 53 Direct
Connect
VPN
NetworkingStorage
Multiple Direct
Connects
Compute
Auto
Scaling
ELBEC2
Deployment /
Management
CloudFormation IAM
Added through the levels of DR
VPC

11. Backup and restore architecture
On-premises
Active
Production
www.example.com
Corporate data center AWS region
AWS
DR failover
App
Servers
DB
Server
VPN
Connection
Storage
GatewayiSCSI
Backup
System
S3 / Bucket
Glacier / Archive
Web
Servers Internet traffic
S3 (1TB)
$31/Month
Glacier (2TB)
$22/Month
~$200 / Month
In US-­EAST
+VPN
Storage Gateway
$125/Month
S3 / Bucket
S3 (1TB)
$31/Month
1TB
Data
Volume

12. Backup and restore details
• Suitable for:
– Solutions that can sustain higher technical debt
– Lower business critical nature
– Low cost DR option
• Leverage existing investments in
– De-­duplication
– Compression
– WAN Acceleration

13. Partner backup to cloud option
• Popular DR storage appliance for storing
backup data on AWS
• De-­dupes, encrypts, optimizes
• Customer managed encryption keys
• Connects to Amazon S3 and Glacier
• Physical, virtual, or AWS-­based appliance
AVAILABLE IN
Amazon S3
$0.03 per GB / month
30:1 storage reduction
over 3 years
after SteelStore
$0.001 per GB / month
$1/Terabyte/month

14. Pilot light architecture
Data Replication
On-premises
Active
Production
Route 53
www.example.com
Corporate data center
1 TB Data
Volume
AWS region
Web
Servers
AWS
Active
Production
Direct Connect
App
Servers
DB
Server
1TB
Data
Volume
DB
Server

15. Pilot light architecture
Data Replication
ELB
On-premises
Active
Production
Route 53
www.example.com
Corporate data center
1 TB Data
Volume
Web
Servers
AWS region
Web
Servers
AWS
Active
Production
Direct Connect
App
Servers
DB
Server
App
Servers
1TB
Data
Volume
DB
Server
EBS (GP2)
$100/Month
EC2 (m3.xlarge)
$205/Month
EC2 (t2.medium)
$0/Month
ELB (100GB Data)
$0/Month
EC2 (t2.small)
$0/Month
ELB (100GB Data)
$0/Month
R53 (1M Query)
$4/Month
CloudFormation
$309 / Month
In US-­EAST
+DirectConnect

16. Pilot light details
Considerations
Suitable for:
• Solutions that need lower
RTO & RPO
• higher business critical
nature
• Mid-­range cost DR option
3rd Party & Marketplace
• CloudEndure
• Racemi
• Others

17. Warm standby architecture
ELB
On-premises
Active
Production
Route 53
www.example.com
Corporate data center
1 TB Data
Volume
Web
Servers
AWS region
Web
Servers
AWS
Active
Production
App
Servers
DB
Server
App
Servers
1TB
Data
Volume
DB
Server EBS (GP2)
$100/Month
EC2 (m3.xlarge)
$205/Month
EC2 (t2.medium)
$41/Month
ELB (100GB Data)
$19/Month
EC2 (t2.small)
$22/Month
ELB (100GB Data)
$19/Month
R53 (1M Query)
$4/Month
CloudFormation
$410 / Month
In US-­EAST
+DirectConnect
Data Replication
Direct Connect

18. Multi-­site architecture
Data Replication
ELB
On-premises
Active
Production
Route 53
www.example.com
Corporate data center
1 TB Data
Volume
Web
Servers
AWS region
Web
Servers
AWS
Active
Production
Direct Connect
App
Servers
DB
Server
App
Servers
1TB
Data
Volume
DB
Server EBS (GP2)
$100/Month
EC2 (m3.xlarge)
$205/Month
EC2 (t2.medium)
$82/Month
ELB (100GB Data)
$19/Month
EC2 (t2.small)
$44/Month
ELB (100GB Data)
$19/Month
R53 (1M Query)
$4/Month
CloudFormation
$473 / Month
In US-­EAST
+DirectConnect

19. Warm standby and multi-­site details
Considerations
Suitable for:
• Solutions that require RTO
& RPO in minutes
• Core business critical
functions
• Higher cost DR option
Partners
• Partner ecosystem

20. Lessons Learned
• 3rd Party solutions
• Partner engagement
• Opportunity to automate technical debt
• Customer experiences

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AWS Partner Ecosystem

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Partner giveaway details

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Q&A Panel -­ Partner Giveaway
Rich Uhl
richuhl@amazon.com
Enterprise Solutions Architect
Miha Kralj
mihak@amazon.com
Principal Solutions Architect
Paul Nau
paulnau@amazon.com
Sr. Consultant
Patrick McClory
patrick@dualspark.com
COO

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