DISASTER RECOVERY

Disaster recovery is about preparing for and recovering from any

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approach involves duplicating infrastructure to ensure the
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FOR LOCAL APPLICATIONS
Amazon Web Services allows you to scale up your infrastructure
f e r on an as-needed basis. For a disaster recovery solution, this

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results in significant cost savings. The following diagram shows an
example of a disaster recovery setup for a local application.

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System 1 A corporate data center hosts an application consisting

of a database server and an application server with
local storage for a content management system.
Overview 2 AWS Storage Gateway is a service connecting an on-
premises software appliance with cloud-based storage.
AWS Storage Gateway securely uploads data to the AWS
cloud for cost effective backup and rapid disaster recovery.
3 Database server backups, application server volume
snapshots, and Amazon Machine Images (AMI) of the
recovery servers are stored on Amazon Simple Storage
Service (Amazon S3), a highly durable and cost-effective
data store. AMIs are pre-configured operating system and
application software that are used to create a virtual machine
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Oracle
databases can directly back up to Amazon S3 using the
Oracle Secure Backup (OSB) Cloud Module.
4 In case of disaster in the corporate data center, you can
recreate the complete infrastructure from the backups
on Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Amazon
VPC lets you provision a private, isolated section of the AWS
cloud where you can recreate your application.
5 The application and database servers are recreated
using Amazon EC2. To restore volume snapshots, you
can use Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, which
are then attached to the recovered application server.
To remotely access the recovered application, you use
6 a VPN connection created by using the VPC Gateway.