# Disaster Recovery Strategies on AWS: Ensuring Business Continuity

DevFeed: [Disaster Recovery Strategies on AWS: Ensuring Business Continuity](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/disaster-recovery-strategies-on-aws-ensuring-business-continuity-18009.md>)

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

Author: Guillermo Ojeda

Published: 2024-03-15T01:07:48Z

Content type: tutorial

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>), [Availability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/availability.md>), [Cloud Architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-architecture.md>)

Tags: [amazon-web-services](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/amazon-web-services.md>), [article](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/article.md>), [availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/availability.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [cloud-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-architecture.md>), [devops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devops.md>), [disaster-recovery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/disaster-recovery.md>), [recovery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/recovery.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains disaster recovery and business continuity on Amazon Web Services (AWS). It introduces Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO), showing how acceptable downtime and data loss influence disaster recovery strategy choices.

## Source excerpt

We're now living in the world of immediate and always-on stuff, where even a few minutes of downtime can be a disaster for businesses. Customers expect 24/7 availability, and any interruption in service can lead to lost revenue, damaged reputation, a...