Designing a Multi-Region Disaster Recovery Architecture

ADVANCED
180 minutes
5 tasks

In this advanced lab, you will build a multi-region disaster recovery architecture leveraging AWS services. The goal is to create a system that can withstand regional outages and ensure business continuity. You will configure and test failover strategies, deploy resources across multiple regions, and evaluate cost implications while ensuring high availability and data integrity. This lab focuses on critical enterprise-scale solutions requiring deep integration knowledge across networking, storage, and compute resources.

Scenario

Your company, Globex Corp, operates a popular e-commerce platform with users across North America and Europe. Due to increasing regulatory requirements and customer expectations, the platform must ensure uptime even during regional failures. Your task is to design a disaster recovery strategy that utilizes AWS to achieve an RTO of less than 1 hour and an RPO of less than 5 minutes. Globex Corp has a monthly budget of $15,000 for disaster recovery operations, and data must be encrypted at all times.

Learning Objectives

  • Design a multi-region disaster recovery setup using AWS services
  • Implement automated failover mechanisms
  • Understand the cost implications and optimize for budget compliance
  • Ensure data security and compliance through encryption and IAM policies

tasks (5)

task 1: Create and configure VPCs in two AWS regions

30 min

task 2: Deploy and configure EC2 Instances for failover testing

40 min

task 3: Implement and validate an RTO and RPO strategy

50 min

task 4: Integrate Security with IAM and KMS

30 min

task 5: Cost Analysis and Optimization

30 min

Prerequisites

  • Understanding of AWS VPC and networking fundamentals
  • Basic knowledge of IAM and KMS
  • Experience with AWS EC2 instances
  • Familiarity with disaster recovery concepts

Skills Tested

Designing disaster recovery strategies with RTO and RPO considerationsImplementing multi-region architectures for resilienceSecuring cloud infrastructure through IAM policies and KMS encryptionCost optimization within a constrained budget
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