# Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity on AWS

DevFeed: [Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity on AWS](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/disaster-recovery-and-business-continuity-on-aws-18008.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.guilleojeda.com/disaster-recovery-strategies-aws>)

Author: Guillermo Ojeda

Published: 2023-12-05T19:41:37Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Guille Ojeda](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/guille-ojeda.md>)

Topics: [Disaster Recovery](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/disaster-recovery.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [Cloud Architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-architecture.md>)

Tags: [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [backup](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backup.md>), [backups](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backups.md>), [cloud-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-architecture.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [disaster-recovery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/disaster-recovery.md>), [recovery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/recovery.md>), [replication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/replication.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/servers.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains disaster recovery and business continuity on AWS. It discusses data replication, backups, Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), including the trade-offs between recovery targets, technology, effort, and cost.

## Source excerpt

Imagine this scenario: You successfully replicated your data to another region, so if your AWS region fails you can still access the data. However, all your servers are still down! You'd like to continue operating even in the event of a disaster. Dis...