learn how 2nd Watch can help you leverage the AWS Cloud to build a robust backup environment and some simple disaster recovery solutions.

1. Backup on the Cloud
Mike Izumi
Cloud Architect
2nd Watch

2.  Backups - Traditional vs. Cloud
 AWS Backup, Archival & DR Tools
 DR – Traditional vs. AWS Solutions
 HA Using AWS Solutions
 Q&A
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3.  Long/slow recovery time
 Low durability (higher probability for data
loss)
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4.  Requires Tape Museums
 Expensive Tech Refresh
 Disaster Recovery
– Complex and highly cost-prohibitive
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5.  Eleven 9s (that’s 99.999999999%) of durability
(S3/Glacier)
 Seamless integration with existing AWS infrastructure
 Lifecycle Management built in via “Lifecycle Policies”
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6.  Numerous options for transferring data in/out and
syncing
 The typical reasons for using AWS apply (e.g. Reduce
CapEx, Reduce TCO, industry compliances)
 Affordable and manageable DR with “Pilot Light”
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7.  S3 (backup/recovery)
 Glacier (archival)
 EBS snapshots
 AWS Import/Export (used for seeding large
data sets)
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8.  Storage Gateway
 Pilot Light (Disaster Recovery)
 Warm Standby (taking Pilot Light a step
further to achieve fault tolerance between
on premise and AWS DR resources)
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 Durable and low cost (1GB < $0.10 per month)
 Unlimited number of objects and volume
 Backup from any system directly to S3 buckets via
HTTP/HTTPS
– Create scripts using PowerShell, Perl, Python…
– Numerous solutions for data copy and synch

10.  Easily create lifecycle rules
− Delete or archive to Glacier
− Single rule for the bucket or multiple based on object prefix
 Security
− Control access thru policies and ACLs
− Auditable access
− Encryption in flight and at rest (SSL & SSE)
− Versioning in case of accidental
deletion
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• Secure and Cost effective
Offsite data archiving
• Tape Replacement for
backup and recovery
• Long term digital
preservation for historical
and digital information

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 “SAN like snapshots” of EBS storage allow recovery to a
point in time – replicated across the entire region (3+
AZ/datacenters)
 Auto-scaling and scripting allow backup server to be
fully cost optimized
Example: 2W Backup Server < $1 per month

13.  Quickly migrate large amounts of data in/out of AWS
– Seeding initial datasets
– Copying offsite backups into S3, EBS, Glacier
– Retrieval of offsite backups and datasets
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14.  Cloud backed storage running as an on premise
software appliance
 Utilizes durable Amazon S3 for primary storage and
EBS Snapshots
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Gateway-Cached
• Frequently accessed data is
cached on premise
• Cost savings on storage
• Mount volumes up to 32TB
• With up to 150 TBs total
storage
Gateway-Stored
• Low-latency access to all
your data
• Asynchronous backup to S3
as EBS Snapshots
• Mount volumes up to 1TB
• Up to 12TBs of total storage

16.  Average fully managed costs of DR > $1 per GB of
protected data
 Recovering from backups can take days
 Backup tapes add risk and time to recovery
– Do you have all the tapes you need
– Are the resources available to do the restorations
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17.  Did you know?
– Businesses spend over 80% of their IT budget on keeping
the lights on
If you have an outage will it be a disaster?
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Classes of RTOs
 Critical – Real-time availability or near real-
time (minutes) – Tier 0 infrastructure,
critical apps
 Major – Applications to run the business
(hours) – Tier 1 infrastructure and apps
 Minor – Applications that can withstand a
longer downtime (hours - days)
AWS Solution
• High Availability
or Warm
Standby
• Pilot Light DR in
AWS
• Backup and
Recovery in AWS

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Classes of RTOs
 Critical – Real-time availability
or near real-time (minutes) –
Tier 0 infrastructure, critical
apps
 Major – Applications to run
the business (hours) – Tier 1
infrastructure and apps
 Minor – Applications that can
withstand a longer downtime
(hours - days)
AWS Solution
 High Availability or Warm
Standby
 Pilot Light DR in AWS
 Backup and Recovery in
AWS

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 Plan for failure at any level
 Services within a Datacenter (AZs) can fail
 Regions are N+2 (minimum)
 Reserve capacity (the other side of Reserved Instances)
 Use AWS Services that scale across AZs
− VPC, S3, ELB, RDS, ...
 Chaos Monkey – Now Available!

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 HA at each tier
 Can lose entire
datacenter and
maintain production
load
 Auto-scaling at web
and API tier to
support dynamic site
load
 High Data security
requirements – HA at
IDS, Log Mgmt. and
auditing tiers

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24.  Warm standby for the price of cold storage
− Or Less!
 Super fast recovery time
− Entire recovery process could be 1-3 hours
 Data replication can keep critical systems in sync
Tip: include full domain controller to ensure all
accounts are replicated and can be used at time of
event for definitive source.
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Q & A

26. Thank you for your time
Keep in Touch
Mike Izumi | mikei@2ndwatch.com | www.2ndwatch.com
info@2ndwatch.com | 1-888-317-7920