Practical Disaster Recovery Plan in AWS - Free Guide with Worksheets
The worst nightmare for IT teams is a scenario where the company’s critical system fails. Customers are unable to place orders, and the support team is stuck without access to the database. Even a few minutes of downtime can lead to losses worth thousands of dollars, and customer trust can be difficult to regain. That’s why implementing a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy and a solid backup plan is not just a technical task—it’s a survival strategy in today’s competitive market.
DR is a predefined contingency plan that enables you to restore critical systems within a set timeframe (RTO) and with minimal data loss (RPO). A well-thought-out backup plan ensures that copies are made regularly, stored securely, and most importantly tested before they are actually needed. This way, no unexpected event, hardware failure, or ransomware attack can paralyze your organization.
Based on our experience, we’ve prepared a practical guide for you: “7 Steps to Effective Disaster Recovery in AWS”. Here’s what you’ll find inside.
What does our guide with worksheets include?
This is a 7-page manual dedicated to each stage of creating a Disaster Recovery plan. Each page contains a ready-to-use worksheet template and practical tips to help you move from theory to implementation.
Identify Critical Systems and Data
This section includes a worksheet where you can list all AWS resources—such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), or Amazon DynamoDB evaluate their business importance, and mark which ones should be covered by your DR plan. This way, your efforts are focused on elements that truly impact revenue and customer satisfaction.
Define RTO and RPO
You’ll receive a worksheet to input acceptable Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) values for each key service. The template helps you calculate and design thresholds for how long and to what extent you can operate without access to your systems—while optimizing infrastructure costs and resource use.
Choose Your Backup Strategy
This page offers a worksheet to define the tools used for backups, such as AWS Backup for centralized backup management, automated Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots, Amazon S3 Versioning, or manual RDS snapshots. You’ll specify backup frequency, selected regions, and responsible personnel enabling you to implement the 3-2-1 model and secure your data across multiple services and locations.
Download your guide with worksheets and protect your infrastructure
Don’t wait for a failure to catch your team off guard—take control now. Click the link to download the comprehensive PDF guide “7 Steps to Effective Disaster Recovery in AWS”. With ready-to-use templates and actionable tips, you’ll complete every stage of the DR plan and build protection that stands up to the most challenging scenarios.
The worksheets included in the guide are in Polish.
Summary
Creating an effective Disaster Recovery plan is essential for ensuring continuity and security of your infrastructure in the AWS cloud. Our guide gives you ready-made tables, templates, and practical advice that will help you design and test every element of your DR strategy.
If you’d like us to design and implement your Disaster Recovery and Backup processes or if you have any questions, feel free to contact us: kontakt@lcloud.pl
