Amazon enterprise services tech advises re: disaster recovery of on-premises IT infrastructure

Rich Uhl, enterprise solutions architect for Amazon Web Services (AWS), delivered this recent training session entitled, Disaster Recovery (DR) of On-Premises IT Infrastructure with AWS.

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Uhl notes, "AWS enables fast disaster recovery of critical on-premises IT systems without incurring the complexity and expense of a second physical site. With 28 availability zones in 11 regions around the world and a broad set of services, AWS can deliver rapid recovery of on-premises IT infrastructure and data."

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He adds, "The objective of this session is to enable customers with any level of DR experience to gain actionable guidance to advance their business up the ladder of DR readiness. During this session we will walk you through the ascending levels of DR options made possible with AWS and review the technologies and services that help deliver various DR capabilities, starting from cloud backups all the way up to hot site DR. We will also explore various DR architectures and the balance of recovery time and cost."