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Disaster recovery plan using AWS Backup or Azure Site Recovery

Why Choose This Project?

In today’s digital era, data loss, service downtime, and infrastructure failures can cause significant business disruption. Implementing a disaster recovery (DR) solution ensures that critical systems and data can be restored quickly with minimal downtime. Using AWS Backup or Azure Site Recovery, students can design a cloud-based DR system that is reliable, scalable, and automated.

This project is ideal for learning cloud backup strategies, replication, failover mechanisms, and high availability.

What You Get

Automated backup of cloud resources and data
Multi-region replication to ensure redundancy
Scheduled backups for databases, file storage, and virtual machines
Disaster recovery simulation and failover testing
Dashboard to monitor backup status and recovery progress
Policy-based backup retention and lifecycle management
Alerts for backup failures or recovery events

Key Features

Feature	Description
Automated Backup	Schedule backups for EC2, RDS, S3 (AWS) or VMs, databases, storage accounts (Azure)
Cross-Region Replication	Replicate critical data and systems to secondary regions for high availability
Disaster Recovery Simulation	Test failover and recovery without affecting production systems
Policy-Based Management	Define backup schedules, retention policies, and lifecycle rules
Monitoring & Alerts	Receive notifications for backup completion, failures, or issues
Quick Recovery	Restore data or entire systems rapidly in case of outage
Compliance & Security	Enforce encryption, access control, and retention policies for regulatory compliance
Cost Optimization	Archive old backups to lower-cost storage tiers

Technology Stack

Layer	Tools/Technologies
Cloud Backup / DR	AWS Backup, AWS S3, RDS Snapshots, EC2 AMIs / Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup
Compute & Storage	EC2, RDS, S3 / Azure VMs, Azure SQL, Blob Storage
Monitoring	AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, CloudTrail / Log Analytics
Automation	AWS Lambda, Azure Automation Runbooks
Authentication	AWS IAM, Azure AD for secure access control
Notification	AWS SNS, Azure Alerts for monitoring events

AWS / Azure Services Used

Service	Purpose
AWS Backup / Azure Backup	Centralized backup management and automated scheduling
AWS S3 / Azure Blob Storage	Store backup files and snapshots
AWS EC2 / Azure VMs	Compute resources for applications and DR testing
AWS RDS / Azure SQL	Database backup and restore
AWS CloudWatch / Azure Monitor	Monitor backup status and alerts
AWS Lambda / Azure Automation	Automate backup triggers, failover testing, and recovery
SNS / Azure Alerts	Send notifications on backup success/failure

Working Flow

Identify Critical Resources
Select databases, virtual machines, storage, and other services that need DR coverage.
Configure Backup Policies
Define backup schedules, retention periods, and encryption options.
Set Up Cross-Region Replication
Replicate backups to secondary regions for redundancy.
Automate Monitoring
Configure CloudWatch / Azure Monitor to track backup and recovery events.
Simulate Disaster Recovery
Test failover by restoring backups to a secondary region without affecting production.
Perform Actual Recovery (if needed)
In case of real disaster, restore systems using automated scripts or DR console.
Maintain & Optimize
Regularly review policies, remove expired backups, and optimize costs by tiered storage.