- Backup
- EBS Snapshots, RDS automated backups/ Snapshots etc
- Regular pushes to S3/ S3 IA/ Glacier, Lifecycle Policy, Cross Region Replication
- From On-Premise:Snowball or Storage Gateway
- High availability
- Use Route 53 to migrate DNS over Region to Region
- RDS Multi-AZ, Elastic Cache Multi-AZ, EFS, S3
- Site to Site VPN as a recovery from Direct Connect
- Replication
- RDS Replication (Cross Region),AWS Aurora + Global Databases
- Database replication from on-premise to RDS
- Storage Gateway
- Automation
- CloudFormation / Elastic Beanstalk to re-create a whole new environment
- Recover / Reboot Ec2 instances with CloudWatch if alarms fail
- AWS Lambda functions for customized automatons
- Chaos
- Netflix has a "simian-army" randomly terminating EC2