| | DECEMBER 20218CIOReviewIN MY OPINIONTHE NEW FACE OF DISASTER RECOVERY IN A CLOUD-ENABLED ENVIRONMENTBy Felipe Medina, VP of Information Security Engineering, BankUnitedThe advancement of Cloud technologies and cloud-native design patterns has significantly altered the Information Technology (IT) landscape, however one would argue that no area of IT has been more influenced by Cloud than Disaster Recovery (DR) and the emergence of DRaaS (disaster recovery as a service).Traditionally speaking, legacy DR has entailed significant capital investment in often-times underutilized technology assets and facilities. This activity typically involving technology engineers planning and building production equivalent (or resembling) environments in a geographically diverse location with various forms of data synchronization and circuitry linking the two (or in some instances multiple sites beyond two (2)).So, in what ways has Cloud influenced DR? Provided below we will dive into this in more detail by reviewing it through the prism of the three (3) primary public cloud providers, those being Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).Public CloudFor those companies willing to make the plunge into public cloud adoption (specifically AWS, Azure, and/or GCP (Google Cloud)) there are a number of CSP (cloud service provider) specific services available to help improve an organization's recovery posture while doing so in a more cost-effectivemanner.· AWS ­Back in January of 2019 AWS announced the acquisition of the Israeli start-up CloudEndure. Prior to its acquisition, CloudEndure was an AWS Advanced Technology Partnerwith both disaster recovery and backup-as-a-service capabilities for AWS, Azure and GCP clouds alike. AWS has since integrated CloudEndure as part of its core platform services thereby enabling customers who are either migrating to AWS, leveraging AWS in a hybrid cloud model, and/or supporting a multi-region cloud estate to have access to a managed service for backup and recoveryneeds. CloudEndure enables this using secureprotocols for data transport and ongoing
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