3 articles tagged with Disaster Recovery.
AWS says it cannot restore data held only in Bahrain (me-south-1) or in one UAE zone. Multi-AZ gave availability, not recovery, and only cross-region copies survived.
The architectural choice is presented as binary; the practical answer is "depends on the workload." The patterns that earn their place and the failure modes we've hit.
Backups are easy. Restores are hard. The quarterly drill we run, what's failed during it, and the discipline that makes "we have backups" actually mean something.
