# Planning for disaster recovery using AWS Local Zones and AWS Outposts racks

DevFeed: [Planning for disaster recovery using AWS Local Zones and AWS Outposts racks](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/planning-for-disaster-recovery-using-aws-local-zones-and-aws-outposts-racks-42096.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/planning-for-disaster-recovery-using-aws-local-zones-and-aws-outposts-racks/>)

Author: Brianna Rosentrater

Published: 2026-09-17T17:24:21Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [AWS Compute Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/aws-compute-blog.md>)

Topics: [Disaster Recovery](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/disaster-recovery.md>), [AWS Local Zones](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws-local-zones.md>), [AWS Outposts](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws-outposts.md>), [Replication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/replication.md>), [Load Balancing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/load-balancing.md>), [Availability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/availability.md>)

Tags: [advanced-300](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/advanced-300.md>), [availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/availability.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [aws-local-zones](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-local-zones.md>), [aws-outposts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-outposts.md>), [aws-outposts-rack](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-outposts-rack.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [disaster-recovery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/disaster-recovery.md>), [failover](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/failover.md>), [hybrid](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hybrid.md>), [hybrid-cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hybrid-cloud.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [load-balancing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/load-balancing.md>), [replication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/replication.md>), [technical-how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technical-how-to.md>)

## AI overview

This post presents disaster recovery architectures using AWS Outposts racks and AWS Local Zones, including DNS-based failover, active/active load balancing, and hybrid database replication. It explains their availability, RTO/RPO, complexity, cost, and data-residency trade-offs.

## Source excerpt

Build highly available architectures that span two AWS Outposts racks, or an Outpost rack and an AWS Local Zone, without single points of failure. This post covers three disaster recovery approaches: DNS-based failover, active/active load balancing, and hybrid database replication, with the RTO/RPO trade-offs of each.