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🔁 AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) introduces Recovery Plans to automate the sequenced launch of multi-server applications during recoveries and drills. You define server groups and ordered steps once, with configurable wait times, approvals, and non-disruptive drill mode to validate procedures. Recovery Plans provide real-time monitoring, reduce recovery time, and remove manual dependency tracking. The feature is available in all Regions where AWS DRS is offered at no extra cost beyond standard usage.

🔎 This article compares self-managed PostgreSQL and managed PostgreSQL services, explaining how each model balances control, responsibility, cost, and operational effort. It highlights the operational tax of self-hosting versus the reduced platform responsibilities provided by managed services like Azure Database for PostgreSQL. The piece outlines implications for resilience, security, identity integration, backups, maintenance, and scalability to help technical decision makers choose the right operating model.

🔒 AWS Backup now supports cross-Region copies and logically air-gapped vaults for Amazon DocumentDB in nine additional Regions including Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa, and Israel. You can copy backups using backup plans or on-demand copy jobs to meet disaster recovery, continuity, and compliance needs. Logically air-gapped vaults provide immutable, isolated backups that are locked by default and encrypted with AWS-owned or customer-managed keys. Share vaults for recovery via AWS Resource Access Manager and protect access with multi-party approval.

⚙️ Amazon launches the RDS Switchover Read Replica execution block for ARC Region switch to automate recovery orchestration for Amazon RDS databases using Oracle Data Guard in multi-Region workloads. The feature automates role reversal or promotion between primary and read replica to enable zero data loss in planned failovers and rapid recovery in unplanned events. It includes native cross-account support for centralized recovery management.

🔧 AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now preserves UEFI boot mode when recovering Linux source servers that boot with UEFI firmware. Previously, recovered Linux instances launched in legacy BIOS mode and could require extra post-recovery configuration. Recovered instances now launch with the same UEFI boot mode as the source, ensuring applications that depend on UEFI behavior function without additional steps. This automatic capability is available in all Regions where AWS DRS is offered at no extra cost.

🔒 AWS Backup now supports logically air-gapped vaults for Amazon Neptune in three additional Regions: Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich). These vaults are immutable, locked by default, and encrypted with AWS-owned or customer-managed keys. You can copy backups across accounts and Regions, share vaults for recovery using AWS RAM, and require multi-party approval to protect access during account compromise.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon Aurora DSQL supports multi-Region clusters in four additional AWS Regions: Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). Aurora DSQL is a serverless, distributed SQL database offering active-active high availability and multi-Region strong consistency. Each multi-Region cluster exposes writable endpoints in both peered Regions and provides a single logical database that stays available if one Region becomes unavailable.

🔒 Amazon EFS now supports cross-account Replication in AWS GovCloud (US), enabling customers to replicate file systems between separate AWS accounts. EFS Replication keeps an up-to-date replica of file systems in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region of your choice, supporting business continuity, multi-account disaster recovery, and compliance. Customers can configure replication via the Amazon EFS Console, AWS CLI, CloudFormation, or APIs for streamlined, automated synchronization across accounts.

🛡️ AWS Backup restore testing is now available in six additional Regions: Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Mexico (Central), and Canada West (Calgary). The capability automates periodic restore tests for supported storage, compute, and database resources, letting you create plans that select recovery points, run scheduled restores, and measure completion against recovery time objectives. This helps organisations evaluate recovery readiness and meet regulatory and business continuity requirements. To start, use the AWS Backup console, CLI, or SDKs and consult the documentation for supported Regions and pricing.

🔒 AWS Backup now offers logically air-gapped vaults in six additional Regions: Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Mexico (Central), and Canada West (Calgary). These vaults provide immutable, isolated backups that are locked by default and encrypted with AWS-owned or customer-managed keys. You can back up directly to these vaults, copy backups across accounts and Regions, share via AWS Resource Access Manager, and use Multi-party approval to protect access during account compromise. Use the AWS Backup console, CLI, or SDKs to get started and consult the documentation for region and feature details.

🚀 AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now recovers AWS-based workloads faster by skipping unnecessary preparation steps for source servers running on Amazon EC2. This optimization can reduce recovery time by up to 65% for Windows and up to 40% for Linux, while still automatically applying networking, drivers, and licensing. Administrators can enable faster recovery across an account or on a per-server basis and change settings as needed. The feature is available in all Regions offering AWS DRS at no additional cost.

🔧 AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now supports the Amazon EBS volume initialization rate to accelerate restored volume performance during drills and recoveries. When DRS creates volumes from snapshots, data loads from Amazon S3 in the background and uninitialized blocks can show slower I/O; setting a volume initialization rate on your DRS-managed EC2 launch template lets DRS apply that rate automatically at recovery. This preserves performance for I/O-intensive workloads and is retained across template updates; if the rate cannot be applied, DRS still completes the recovery to avoid blocking operations. Support is available in all Regions where the EBS initialization rate is offered, and charges apply per GB based on snapshot size and your chosen rate.

🔄 Amazon Redshift Serverless now preserves zero-ETL and Amazon S3 event integrations automatically when restoring a namespace from a snapshot or recovery point to the same serverless namespace. Previously, restores marked integrations as failed and required manual recreation, causing reconfiguration delays and potential ingestion gaps. With this improvement, integrations resume operating after restore completion, simplifying disaster recovery and testing workflows and reducing administrative overhead. This behavior applies only to restores within the same serverless namespace and is available in all regions where Redshift Serverless is offered.

🔧 Azure reframes resiliency beyond simple availability metrics to emphasize sustained operation, recoverability, and trust under real-world constraints. The platform combines zone-first design, data protection, and cyber recovery with observability and automation to help customers meet sovereignty and regulatory needs. New tooling like Azure Infrastructure Resiliency Manager and the Resiliency Agent shift guidance to executable, IaC-driven remediation.

🛡️ Microsoft will enable the Windows settings backup and restore tool by default on Microsoft Entra-joined and Entra hybrid-joined enterprise devices when they upgrade to Windows 11 version 26H2. The feature, introduced as opt-in at Ignite 2024 and GA in August 2025, previously required admins to turn it on after installing the September 2025 cumulative update. Default-on applies only to eligible devices outside DMA-regulated regions and not in sovereign cloud environments, and explicit admin policies via Intune or Group Policy still take precedence. Restore remains disabled by default and requires explicit admin configuration.

🔒 Google Cloud announces general availability of cross-region backups for its Backup and DR Service. This release decouples backup destinations from source regions, enabling backups to be stored in distinct geographic regions to improve resilience and meet data residency requirements. The capability is available now for Compute Engine instances, Disks, and Filestore, with Cloud SQL and AlloyDB support coming soon.

🔔 Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region switch introduces three new execution blocks: Amazon Aurora serverless scaling, Amazon Aurora provisioned scaling, and Amazon Neptune global database failover. These blocks automate database scaling and failover for multi-Region workloads, eliminating manual steps that add recovery time. They support cross-account orchestration so a single plan can coordinate operations across multiple accounts and Regions.

🚀 Today AWS adds durability to Amazon ElastiCache, allowing workloads that need microsecond read latency but cannot tolerate data loss to run on ElastiCache. The feature stores data durably across multiple Availability Zones using a Multi‑AZ transactional log for fast failover, recovery, and node restarts. Two durability modes—synchronous and asynchronous writes—let you trade off zero data loss with millisecond write latency or microsecond write latency with potential brief data loss.

🔧 The next generation of AWS Resilience Hub is now generally available, offering platform engineering and SRE teams a centralized console to assess and strengthen workload resilience. It introduces a three-level application model, automated dependency discovery, generative AI-powered failure mode analysis, modular resilience policies, and organization-wide reporting. Integration with AWS Organizations enables central policy definition and posture monitoring across accounts and regions, and existing customers can migrate at their own pace.

🚦 Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region Switch adds a Lambda event source mapping execution block to automate coordinated failover of event-driven streams across Regions. The block enables or disables Lambda event source mappings for Kinesis, DynamoDB Streams, MSK, and SQS to prevent duplicate processing. Customers can chain a disable block before an enable block, or run plans in ungraceful mode for impaired Regions. Native cross-account support lets a single plan span multiple AWS accounts.