Complex Cloud Architectures Introduce Complex Cloud Disasters
While the cloud offers more flexibility and compute power than ever before, it also introduces much more complexity than a traditional environment hosted in the data center. An application built in AWS depends on scores of individual managed services to run just one business critical function. And if just one of those services goes down, the effects could cascade across the entire environment.
Contrary to what some might think, AWS does not come with disaster recovery “built-in”. Per their Shared Responsibility Model, AWS is accountable for the physical infrastructure it operates and the managed services it provides, but their customers are responsible for their own resiliency when assembling their cloud environments out of those building blocks. Thus, when thinking about DR, application teams must explicitly plan for and build disaster recovery capability into their cloud-native applications.
High Availability and Geographic Redundancy
Amazon has organized its cloud infrastructure into 24 geographic ‘regions’ that are located all over the world. Every region comprises 3-6 ‘availability zones,’ each of which maps to one or more distinct data centers that Amazon operates.
When thinking about geographic resilience for AWS workloads, the first step most teams take is architecting their applications to run across more than one availability zone within a single region. This approach provides a high availability solution to traditional data center failures like power outages and fires.
However, a multi-AZ approach does not deliver complete disaster resilience. This is because availability zones are only partially isolated. The workloads you run there still share infrastructure like the AWS control plane and region-wide services.
The reason to embrace multi-region redundancy is to eliminate any dependencies on infrastructure that is shared across availability zones. Amazon builds each region to be completely independent, so that a failure in one region should never cascade to another.
Watch on as Arpio CEO Doug Neumann breaks down why no AWS disaster recovery solution is complete without a multi-region redundancy solution.
Easy, Cost-Effective Cross-Region Replication for All of Your AWS Services
In the past, businesses desiring a multi-region solution for DR on AWS had to build it themselves, which can be a long and costly endeavor. Arpio solves this problem by providing multi-region backup and recovery capabilities ‘out of the box’ for a broad range of AWS services.
Arpio’s simple and secure disaster recovery solution takes just a few minutes to set up. Once it’s connected to your environment, Arpio will automatically discover all of the services in use. You simply select the primary resources that comprise your environment, and Arpio will pick up the rest of the dependencies and immediately begin curating a full replica of your environment – data and infrastructure – in an alternate region of your choosing
Purpose Built for the Cloud
AWS’s vast library of managed services introduces an arsenal of powerful new tools for the cloud developer, however those services aren’t always consistent or straightforward with how to recover them in the event of a disaster.
Luckily, Arpio builds on AWS’s APIs to deliver the best practice for your multi-region recovery, regardless of the collection of services you are using. Our software knits together all of AWS’s capabilities into one seamless orchestration tool, while Arpio’s team of cloud engineers ensures that our solution always stays on the cutting edge of AWS’s capabilities.
Balancing Cost With Time to Recovery
Arpio is also the only solution that provides multi-region disaster recovery for your entire workload, not simply your data. In the case of regional downtime, you can use Arpio to quickly and easily recover your infrastructure and data into an alternate region with just the click of a button.
Arpio’s pilot-light recovery model keeps critical resources at the ready in your recovery region, so you can spin them up quickly in the case of a regional outage. Unlike the more costly active-active model, this approach optimizes recovery time and cost, ensuring you can recover quickly, but are never paying for idling resources you aren’t using.
Support for All Workload Types
There is no need to retrofit your legacy applications for disaster recovery in AWS. Arpio natively supports all flavors of AWS environment – virtualized, containerized, serverless workloads – as well as all of the managed services they depend on. No matter what your AWS environment looks like, it can easily be protected with Arpio.
Arpio is the Easiest Way to Acheive Multi-Region Redundancy
As we’ve outlined, implementing a multi-AZ architecture in AWS is not enough to achieve true disaster resilience. Regional outages do happen, and in those cases, it is important to be able to recover your business critical applications to an alternate region.
Arpio is the easiest way to quickly achieve comprehensive and cost-effective multi-region redundancy for all of your AWS workloads.
Want to learn more? Schedule a demo today to see it in action, or start a free trial to see how Arpio would work in your complex cloud environment. We’d love to show you how easy multi-region redundancy in AWS has become.
