Amazon Web Services
AWS Backup and Disaster Recovery Services
Design, implement and regularly test backup and disaster recovery on AWS, so you can recover from regional outages, human error and ransomware within agreed objectives.
Resilience You Can Demonstrate
Backups and replication are only valuable if recovery works when it is needed. On AWS, resilience is built from several layers: AWS Backup for centralized, policy-based protection across accounts and Regions; Vault Lock and logically air-gapped vaults for ransomware resilience; AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery for fast recovery of servers; and native features such as Aurora Global Database, DynamoDB global tables and S3 Replication for data services. Choosing the right combination depends on how much data loss and downtime each application can tolerate.
Hanoi Technology defines recovery objectives with business owners, designs the protection for each tier, implements it as code and proves it through regular recovery drills.
The Challenge
Backup and DR Gaps We Commonly See
Resilience weaknesses tend to stay hidden until an incident exposes them.
Backups in the Blast Radius
Backups stored in the same account and Region, with the same administrators as production, can be deleted by an attacker who gains access.
Undefined RPO and RTO
Without agreed objectives, critical systems may be underprotected while less important ones consume expensive replication.
Recovery Never Tested
Restore procedures and failover runbooks are documented but not exercised, so actual recovery time is unknown.
Coverage Gaps
New EC2 instances, RDS databases or EFS file systems launch without backup tags or policies and remain unprotected.
Business Value
What a Resilient AWS Environment Delivers
Centralized, Enforced Protection
AWS Backup policies in AWS Organizations apply consistent backup plans across accounts based on resource tags.
Ransomware-Resilient Copies
AWS Backup Vault Lock and logically air-gapped vaults keep immutable copies isolated from compromised production accounts.
Fast Server Recovery
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery continuously replicates servers and launches recovery instances within minutes, with Recovery Plans for orchestrated application recovery.
Proven Recovery Times
AWS Backup restore testing and scheduled drills validate that recovery objectives are achievable.
Multi-Region Data Resilience
Aurora Global Database, DynamoDB global tables and S3 Replication keep data available across Regions for critical applications.
Audit-Ready Compliance
AWS Backup Audit Manager reports on policy compliance, and recovery drills produce evidence for auditors.
A Recovery Plan Is Only as Good as Its Last Test
We schedule recovery drills, measure how long recovery actually takes and fix what slows it down. That evidence is what gives leadership, auditors and customers confidence that your systems can come back.
Our Services
Hanoi Technology’s End-to-End AWS Backup and Disaster Recovery Services
Comprehensive backup and disaster recovery services for AWS and hybrid estates.
Resilience Assessment
We classify applications by criticality, define RPO and RTO with business owners and assess current protection, using AWS Resilience Hub where helpful.
- Criticality tiers
- RPO and RTO matrix
- Gap analysis
AWS Backup Implementation
We design backup plans, vaults, retention rules, cross-account and cross-Region copies and organization-wide backup policies for EC2, EBS, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, EFS, FSx and S3.
- Backup policies as code
- Vault architecture
- Coverage reporting
Ransomware Resilience
We implement Vault Lock, logically air-gapped vaults, separate backup accounts, restricted access and isolated recovery environments for cyber recovery.
- Immutable vault configuration
- Access separation
- Cyber recovery runbook
Disaster Recovery with Elastic Disaster Recovery
We replicate on-premises, other-cloud or AWS servers with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, configure launch settings and recovery plans, and plan failback.
- Replication setup
- Recovery plans
- Failover and failback runbooks
Multi-Region Architectures
We design pilot light, warm standby or active-active architectures using Aurora Global Database, DynamoDB global tables, S3 Replication and Route 53 Application Recovery Controller.
- DR architecture
- Failover automation
- Routing controls
Recovery Testing and Operations
We schedule restore tests and DR drills, run chaos experiments with AWS Fault Injection Service, and monitor backup jobs and compliance.
- Drill reports
- Monitoring and alerts
- Quarterly resilience review
Our Approach
How We Build Resilience on AWS
From business objectives to proven recovery.
- 01
Set Objectives
We agree application tiers and recovery objectives with business owners.
Deliverables: Tiered application list · RPO and RTO targets
- 02
Assess Protection
We review current backups, replication, dependencies and access controls against the objectives.
Deliverables: Gap analysis · Risk register
- 03
Design and Implement
We implement backup policies, vault isolation, replication and DR architecture as code.
Deliverables: Implemented protection · Infrastructure as code
- 04
Test Recovery
We run restore tests and DR drills, measure recovery times and fix issues found.
Deliverables: Drill results · Remediation actions
- 05
Operate and Improve
We monitor compliance, review protection as the estate changes and repeat drills on schedule.
Deliverables: Operational runbooks · Drill calendar
Use Cases
AWS Backup and DR Use Cases
Scenarios we design and test.
On-Premises DR to AWS
A company replicates critical VMware servers to AWS with Elastic Disaster Recovery, replacing a costly secondary data center.
Cross-Region Recovery for SaaS
A SaaS application runs warm standby in a second Region, with Aurora Global Database and automated DNS failover.
Ransomware Recovery Readiness
Backups are copied to a logically air-gapped vault, and a drill restores critical systems into a clean recovery account.
Organization-Wide Backup Policy
Backup policies in AWS Organizations automatically protect every tagged resource across dozens of accounts.
Regulatory Retention
Financial records are retained in locked vaults for mandated periods, with audit reports from Backup Audit Manager.
Accidental Deletion Recovery
Point-in-time recovery for DynamoDB and RDS enables restoring data to the moment before a faulty deployment.
Technology
AWS Resilience Technologies
Native AWS services we use to protect and recover workloads.
- AWS Backup
- AWS Backup Vault Lock
- Logically Air-Gapped Vault
- AWS Backup Audit Manager
- AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
- AWS Resilience Hub
- Route 53 Application Recovery Controller
- AWS Fault Injection Service
- Amazon Aurora Global Database
- Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables
- Amazon S3 Replication
- Amazon EBS Snapshots
- AWS Organizations
- AWS KMS
Why Hanoi Technology
Why Organizations Choose Hanoi Technology
Senior, Cross-Functional Teams
Strategy, data, AI, cloud and engineering specialists work as one team, so nothing is lost between hand-offs.
Proven Delivery
More than 50 projects delivered for clients in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Radical Transparency
A written update every week and a demo of working software every sprint, so you always know where things stand.
Cost-Effective Global Delivery
Experienced engineers from our Hanoi delivery hub, with working-hour overlap for every major time zone.
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Prove Your AWS Workloads Can Recover
Book a free consultation to discuss your critical applications and recovery needs. We will outline how we would assess current protection and plan your first recovery drill.
AWS Backup and Disaster Recovery FAQ
What is the difference between AWS Backup and Elastic Disaster Recovery?
AWS Backup creates point-in-time recovery points for many AWS services under centralized policies, ideal for recovering from deletion, corruption or ransomware. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery continuously replicates servers at block level and launches them quickly in AWS during an outage, giving low RPO and RTO for server-based applications. Critical workloads often use both, since replication also replicates corruption.
How do you protect backups against ransomware?
We isolate backups from production. Backups are copied to separate accounts and, where appropriate, to logically air-gapped vaults that are locked by default and can be shared for recovery. Vault Lock in compliance mode prevents deletion before retention ends. Access is limited to a small group with strong authentication, and we prepare a clean recovery environment and procedure to restore without reintroducing malware.
Which DR strategy should we use?
AWS describes four common strategies: backup and restore, pilot light, warm standby and multi-site active-active. They trade cost against recovery speed. Backup and restore is cheapest but slowest; active-active offers near-zero downtime at the highest cost. We match each application tier to a strategy based on its RPO and RTO, so spending follows business impact.
How often should recovery be tested?
Critical applications should be tested at least once or twice a year and after major changes. AWS Backup restore testing can validate restores automatically on a schedule, and Elastic Disaster Recovery supports drills without interrupting replication. We document measured recovery times, compare them with objectives and track fixes for any issues discovered.
What does backup and DR cost on AWS?
AWS Backup charges for backup storage, which depends on data size, change rate and retention, plus restores and cross-Region data transfer. Elastic Disaster Recovery charges per replicating server plus low-cost staging resources, with full compute only during drills or recovery. Multi-Region architectures add standby resources. We model costs for each tier so protection is proportional to criticality.
Can you protect workloads outside AWS?
Yes. Elastic Disaster Recovery replicates physical servers, VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines and servers in other clouds into AWS. AWS Backup can protect VMware VMs on premises through its gateway, and AWS Storage Gateway supports hybrid backup scenarios. This lets you use AWS as a recovery site while production stays where it is, or protect workloads during a gradual migration.