AWS Cloud Resilience resources

Build and run resilient, highly available applications in the AWS cloud

Whitepapers

Resilience Lifecycle Framework

This whitepaper shares services, strategies, best practices, and mechanisms you can incorporate into your organizational and developmental processes to drive continuous resilience.
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Multi-Region Fundamentals

This whitepaper is intended for cloud architects and senior leaders building workloads on AWS who are interested in using a multi-Region architecture to improve resilience for their workloads.
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Advanced Multi-AZ Resilience Patterns

This whitepaper provides guidance on how to instrument workloads to detect impact from gray failures that are isolated to a single Availability Zone, and then take action to mitigate that impact in the Availability Zone.
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Using AWS Fault Isolation Boundaries

This whitepaper details how AWS uses its fault isolation boundaries, inclusive of Availability Zones (AZ), Regions, control planes, and data planes, to create zonal, Regional, and global services.
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Disaster Recovery of Workloads on AWS

This whitepaper outlines best practices for planning and testing disaster recovery for any workload deployed to AWS, and offers different approaches to mitigate risks and meet the recovery objectives for that workload.
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Resilience Analysis Framework

This whitepaper introduces a resilience analysis framework that provides a consistent way to analyze failure modes and how they could impact your workloads.
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Blogs

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Resilience Best Practices High Availability Patterns Disaster Recovery Chaos Engineering

Resilience Best Practices

New to resilience? Read this blog to learn about the top four most important concepts to get you started on your journey to building resilient applications in the cloud. 

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Learn how to use Resilience Hub to assess and improve the resilience of your single Availability Zone (AZ) architecture based on Resilience Hub recommendations.

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High Availability Patterns

Learn about the specific services and features AWS offers to help you build resilient, multi-Region architectures. 

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Performing a zonal shift with Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller enables you to achieve rapid recovery from application failures in a single Availability Zone (AZ).

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Learn how Amazon automatically validates and safely deploys any type of source change to production, and how you can apply this strategy to your work. 

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Learn about building simple, scalable, resilient systems using a clever coffee analogy and AWS services such as Amazon Route 53 and S3. 

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Learn strategies for using idempotent APIs to reduce complexity and manage retries.

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Customers frequently use Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) load balancers and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups (ASG) to build scalable, resilient workloads.

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Disaster Recovery

This four-part series shares best practices for disaster recovery across four strategies: backup and restore, pilot light, warm standby, and multi-site active/active. 

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Modern DNS services, like Amazon Route 53, offer health checks and failover records that you can use to simplify and strengthen your DR plan. 

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Chaos Engineering

Discover how Amazon Search combines technology and culture to empower its builder teams, ensuring platform resilience through Chaos Engineering.

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AWS Multi-Region Capabilities

AWS supports the needs of every customer—including those requiring a multi-Region
deployment option—and provides prescriptive guidance to build and run critical
workloads across Regions. Below is a list of AWS services with multi-Region
capabilities.

Category AWS Service and Multi-Region Capability
Analytics Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka Replicator
Application Integration Amazon EventBridge cross-Region event buses
Amazon EventBridge global endpoints
Amazon MQ cross-Region data replication
Amazon SNS cross-Region delivery
Contact Center Amazon Connect global resiliency
Containers Amazon ECR cross-Region replication
Databases Amazon Aurora global database
Amazon DocumentDB global cluster
Amazon DynamoDB global tables
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis global datastores
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) multi-Region replication
Amazon Redshift cross-Region data sharing
Developer Tools AWS Fault Injection Service cross-Region connectivity scenario
End User Compute Amazon Workspaces multi-Region resilience
Networking Amazon Global Accelerator
AWS Application Recovery Controller routing controls
Security Amazon Key Management Service multi-Region keys
AWS Directory Service multi-Region replication
AWS Secrets Manager cross-Region replication
AWS Security Hub cross-Region aggregation
Storage Amazon EBS cross-Region snapshot copy
Amazon Elastic File System replication
Amazon S3 cross-Region replication
Amazon S3 multi-Region access points
AWS Backup cross-Region backup
FSX for ONTAP scheduled replication
AWS CodePipeline cross-Region actions