AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery speeds up AWS-to-AWS recovery
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) now offers faster recovery for AWS-based workloads by skipping unnecessary preparation steps for Amazon EC2 instances. This enhancement can reduce recovery times by up to 65% for Windows and 40% for Linux, allowing applications to come back online more quickly during disaster events. The feature is available in all AWS Regions where DRS is offered, at no additional cost. All existing DRS functionality, including automated networking, driver, and licensing application, remains the same.
- →Faster recovery for AWS-to-AWS workloads
- →Benefits and availability of faster recovery
Enhancements (1) ›
- Faster recovery for AWS-to-AWS workloads
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) now recovers AWS-based workloads faster by skipping preparation steps for Amazon EC2 instances. This reduces recovery time by up to 65% for Windows and 40% for Linux workloads.
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- Benefits and availability of faster recovery
The optimized recovery process leverages existing AWS-compatible drivers and configurations to launch instances with fewer steps. This capability is available in all AWS Regions where DRS is offered, at no additional cost, and can be enabled account-wide or per server.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/aws-drs-fast-recovery/
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