Test disaster recovery using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) for a web application hosted on EC2.
- Setup:
- Deploy a sample web application on an EC2 instance in the primary region (e.g.,
us-east-1
).
- Configure AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery to replicate the EC2 instance to a secondary region (e.g.,
us-west-2
).
- Steps:
- Replication: Enable continuous block-level replication using AWS DRS. Confirm replication status in the AWS DRS console.
- Test Failover: Trigger a "Test Drill" in AWS DRS, simulating a failover by launching the replicated instance in the secondary region.
- Validation: Access the application via the secondary region's public IP or DNS to verify functionality.
- Outcome:
- Confirm that the application is operational in the secondary region.
- Review metrics for failover time and performance.
- Terminate the failover instance after testing to avoid costs.