Solution brief Insight Public Sector AWS Disaster Recovery
Key takeaways
- AWS disaster recovery eliminates costly secondary data centers. Cloud-based DR provides reliability and security without duplicate hardware investments.
- Insight delivers four DR strategies matching your recovery speed needs. Warm Standby, Pilot Light, Backup & Restore, and Active-Active address RPO/RTO requirements from minutes to hours.
- Insight completes AWS DR setup in four weeks with automation. CloudFormation templates, backup plans, and failover automation protect against regional outages and ransomware.
Save Money by Shifting Disaster Recovery to AWS
Minimize your downtime and data loss when you leverage AWS® for Disaster Recovery (DR). Cloud-based DR can provide better reliability, availability and security than on-premises secondary data centers without requiring duplicate hardware, compute, networking and software.
Insight Public Sector's Solution and Packages
The AWS Disaster Recovery package options provide a combination of design, deployment and in-depth knowledge transfer. Packages are designed to meet your needs based on your recovery time requirements.
Disaster recovery warm standby
Addresses AWS cloud-to-cloud DR for an application with RPO/RTO of minutes.
Disaster recovery pilot light
Addresses AWS cloud-to-cloud DR for an application with RPO/RTO of less than one hour.
Disaster recovery backup and restore
Addresses AWS cloud-to-cloud DR for an application with RPO/RTO of greater than one hour.
Disaster recovery active-active
Addresses AWS cloud-to-cloud DR for an application with RPO/RTO of near real time and must be able to divert traffic from one site to another.
Standby
- Automation for failover and autoscaling resources for up to 2 applications
- CloudFormation templates for DR automation
- One 2-hour Q&A knowledge transfer session
- Up to 2 DR AWS accounts (1 per application) with 1 VPC deployed
- Up to 2 DR VPCs in remote region of production application account (up to 2 applications)
- AWS Backup plans
- Cloud DR Design document
- Automated scaling in DR account/region via IaC
- Protection against region failure, data corruption and account compromise
- Automated notifications during a DR event for 2 applications
- Cost savings not having to run DR site 24/7
Light
- Automation for failover and autoscaling resources for up to 2 applications
- CloudFormation templates for DR automation
- One 2-hour Q&A knowledge transfer session
- Up to 2 DR AWS accounts (1 per application) with 1 VPC deployed
- Up to 2 DR VPCs in remote region of production application account (up to 2 applications)
- AWS Backup plans
- Cloud DR Design document
- Automated scaling in DR account/region via IaC
- Protection against region failure, data corruption and account compromise
- Automated notifications during a DR event for 2 applications
- savings not having to run DR site 24/7
Restore
- Automation for failover and reassembly of restored resources
- CloudFormation templates for DR automation for 1 application
- One 2-hour Q&A knowledge transfer session
- Deployed DR AWS account with 1 VPC deployed
- Optionally, deployed DR VPC in remote region of production application account
- Backup plans
- Cloud DR Design document
- Automated backup and restore procedure for a single application
- Protection against region failure, data corruption and account compromise
- Automated notifications during a DR event
Active
- Automation for failover and autoscaling resources for up to 2 applications
- One 2-hour Q&A knowledge transfer session
- Up to 2 DR AWS accounts (1 per application) with 1 VPC deployed
- Up to 2 DR VPCs in remote region of production application account (up to 2 applications)
- AWS Backup plans
- Cloud DR Design document
- Automated scaling in secondary account/region
- Protection against region failure, data corruption and account compromise
- Automated notifications during a DR event for 2 applications
Why Insight?
Insight Enterprises is a leading Solutions Integrator that helps clients solve technology challenges by combining the right hardware, software, and services. As a Fortune 500 technology company, backed by 35+ years of expertise and a deep network of 6,000+ partners, we deliver secure, end-to-end IT solutions for organizations around the world.
By Insight Editor / 8 Feb 2025 / Topics: Disaster Recovery (DR)
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