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My main use case for AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is continuous replication.
A specific example of how I use continuous replication with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is that we use it for low-cost EBS volumes and smaller replication servers to keep our data synchronized in near real-time.
For us, it results in approximately 50 to 80% cost reduction.
The best features AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery offers, in my opinion, are its RTO and cost-effective replication.
When I say cost-effective for replication, it makes a difference for my team and my operations compared to warm standby or active-active configuration. The RTO is excellent.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery has positively impacted my organization by securing and stabilizing our platform. It has improved RPO in seconds and RTO in minutes.
I would like to add a point of improvement about the features, specifically concerning native cyber resilience and air gapping.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery can be improved regarding ransomware and insider threats.
Because the replication is continuous and block-level, if a production server is hit by ransomware, the encrypted garbage data is often replicated to the DR site in near-real time. This is an area that needs improvement.
I have been using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery for almost five years.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is absolutely stable.
The scalability of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is 10 out of 10.
The customer support is amazing, and it is the best customer support I have ever had.
I rate the customer support of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery 10 out of 10.
I did not previously use a different solution.
I purchased AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery through the AWS Marketplace.
I have seen a return on investment, specifically in terms of time saved in case of disaster recovery.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that pricing is fair, and you pay for the use.
Before choosing AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, I did not evaluate other options because of the pre-existing relationship with AWS.
My advice to others looking into using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is that you only pay for the full-scale compute and high-performance storage after you initiate a drill or an actual failover.
I rate this review a 10 out of 10.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is a fully managed service that enables fast, reliable recovery of on-premises or cloud-based applications to AWS. We use it for minimizing downtime and data loss. There have been multiple situations where our production servers hosted on AWS went down, and we were able to shift to different servers, thereby minimizing the downtime with no data loss.
This service is very handy in terms of using affordable storage, minimal compute resources, and point-in-time recovery to ensure business continuity during outages or disasters.
Continuous block-level replication stands out for me the most. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery continuously replicates block-level data from the source environment to a staging area in AWS, ensuring that data is always up to date and minimizing data loss during a disaster. Other valuable features include automated failover and recovery as well as non-disruptive testing.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery supports a wide range of source environments, including VMware, Hyper-V, physical servers, and other cloud providers, making it versatile for different IT infrastructures. The flexible recovery options allow recovery of applications to their original environment or to a new instance in AWS while retaining the existing metadata and security parameters. The cost-effective staging area design reduces costs by utilizing affordable storage and minimal compute resources, making it economical for ongoing replication.
It has greatly impacted our company's specific outcomes and improved production failures. For customers, it has been quite beneficial in terms of providing automated failover and recovery options as well as flexible recovery options, which allows recovery of applications to the original environment or to a new instance in AWS while retaining the existing metadata and security parameters, which is quite useful. Encryption and security is also one of the best features. Data is encrypted during transit and at rest, ensuring information remains secure throughout the disaster recovery process.
There has definitely been a lot of improvements in recovery time with very less downtime because we already understand how to recover using the clear process that AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery provides. There has been approximately a thirty percent improvement in terms of recovery time.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery can be improved through regular drills to ensure that all resources are properly prepared for disasters with scheduled drills. This includes testing and understanding failback, which is crucial for a comprehensive disaster recovery plan.
Monitoring and health checks are important to continuously monitor the health of the ongoing replication using the AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery console or programmatically. This helps identify any servers that may require attention and ensures that the application is functioning correctly. Creating a CloudFormation template that can create the necessary network resources on demand is useful for disaster recovery.
There should be documentation and best practices guidance so that teams can follow best practices for implementation and maintenance of disaster recovery from on-premises using AWS. This includes a written recovery plan as well as regularly updating it with findings and required changes.
Within the scope of improvements, there are many possibilities, but it is currently providing some great results. The scope of improvements can include monitoring and health checks as well as documentation with best practices for documentations, and conducting regular drills.
I have been using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery for around two years.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery has been quite stable.
The scalability is quite good and we were able to scale this service to many of the services that our company uses. It has been quite fast with reliable recovery of on-premises as well as our private cloud.
Customer support has been quite good and has definitely solved many issues we have faced.
Positive
Previously, we were using Azure Elastic Disaster Recovery, but now we are using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, which is doing a great job.
In terms of time saved, it has greatly improved because of production failures, and that time is definitely saved because of the great documentation and plans that everyone understands. There are also fewer employees needed now because of the good structured planning for AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, so fewer site reliability engineers are required.
The pricing has been fine, and regarding the setup cost as well, it is quite fine. There is definitely a scope of improvement, and for year-end licensing, they should definitely improve the cost.
We evaluated other alternatives, but they were not providing good cost options. Commvault Cloud, Rubrik, and OpenText Recover were evaluated, but the number of features in AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is quite huge and they cannot match that.
The features that really make AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery a ten out of ten include continuous block-level replication, automated failover and recovery, non-disruptive testing, support for various environments, flexible recovery options, integration with AWS services, cost-effective staging area, encryption and security, customizable launch settings, and post-launch actions.
There are a lot of features that should make AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery appealing to potential users because of the huge market capture by AWS and the fact that most companies are using AWS, so that option should be considered.
We have been a customer only. I give this product a rating of ten out of ten. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery has been doing quite a good job overall.
I've worked with CloudEndure for more than a year on several customer projects. The product is very good. CloudEndure support is proactive, readily available, and just fantastic to work with. We've discussed a number of feature upgrades and changes that they've implemented quickly and their road map is mainly driven by customer requests. It's a great way to run a business! CloudEndure is one of the best products on the market, and hands down the best for cloud migration and DR.
Great Product! Super simple to use. we have used this product with several migration and DR projects successfully. both linux and windows agents worked great.
Agent based DR software replicates VMs and Physical machines to AWS. Easy to setup and monitor, no business interruption to setup. Great product.
This product can literally take a physical or virtual machine and clone it into amazon with no impact on the source machine. It is truly the best SaaS product I have seen in years.
When you see your own machines booted and running in aws it takes you back to the first time you saw vmware vmotion, brilliant stuff
We were about to start developing a DR solution internally when we came across CloudEndure's Disaster Recovery solution. One of our top concerns was how to reduce RPO & RTO to a minimum and I'm glad to say that CloudEndure's solution gave us hands-down the best solution we could ask for. Using their continuous replication, we don't loose a single bit.
Pros: Quick to install, 1-click failover / testing.
Cons: None so far.