Amazon Application Recovery Controller now supports Region switch

Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) now supports switching AWS Regions for multi-Region application recovery. This automated feature allows you to orchestrate the specific steps to switch operating your multi-Region application out of another AWS Region. It provides dashboards for real-time visibility and logging that you can use throughout the recovery process. This saves hours of engineering effort and eliminates the operational overhead previously required to complete failover steps, create custom dashboards, and manually gather evidence of a successful recovery for applications across your organization and hosted in multiple AWS accounts. Region Switch supports failover and failback for active-passive multi-Region approaches, and removing and adding an AWS Region for an application with active-active multi-Region approaches.

ARC Region switch is a highly available solution for multi-Region recovery, and runs independently in each Region it operates in. When you create a Region switch plan, it is replicated to all the Regions your application operates in. This removes dependencies on the Region you are leaving for your recovery.

To get started, build a Region switch plan using the ARC console, API, or CLI. A Region switch plan allows you to create the specific workflow required to recover your applications in another Region. Once created, Region switch will evaluate your plan every 30 minutes to ensure correct configuration and readiness for recovery. When running a test or recovering from an operational event, you can use the ARC dashboard to monitor your applications’ recovery.

ARC Region switch is available in all commercial AWS Regions. To learn more, please refer to the ARC Region switch documentation.