Policy Name: Ensure any redundancy is built into the production IT infrastructure

Description:

This policy ensures that any redundancy is built into the production IT infrastructure. This helps to prevent outages and ensure that critical applications are always available.

Rationale:

Redundancy is essential for ensuring the availability of production IT infrastructure. By building redundancy into your infrastructure, you can reduce the risk of outages and ensure that critical applications are always available. This can help to protect your business from financial losses and reputational damage.

Impact:

The impact of failing to build redundancy into production IT infrastructure could be significant. If an outage occurs and there is no redundancy, critical applications may be unavailable. This could lead to lost revenue, productivity, and customer satisfaction.

Default Value:

AWS recommends that you build redundancy into all production IT infrastructure. This includes redundant components, such as servers, storage, and networking. You should also have a disaster recovery plan in place in case of a major outage.

Pre-requisites:

  • You must have access to the production IT infrastructure.
  • You must have a disaster recovery plan in place.

Remediation Steps:

If you fail to build redundancy into production IT infrastructure, you must take steps to remediate the situation. This may involve adding redundant components, or updating your disaster recovery plan.

Test Plan:

To test the effectiveness of your redundancy, you should generate a test event that would cause an outage. You should then verify that your redundant components are able to keep critical applications available.

Implementation Plan:

To implement this policy, you must build redundancy into all production IT infrastructure. You should also update your disaster recovery plan to ensure that it is up-to-date and reflects the current state of your infrastructure.

AWS CLI Process:

There is no specific AWS CLI command for building redundancy into production IT infrastructure. However, you can use the AWS CLI to manage the components of your infrastructure, including servers, storage, and networking.

Using AWS GUI:

You can use the AWS Management Console to manage the components of your infrastructure. In the AWS Management Console, you can view the redundancy for each component. You can also create new redundant components and update existing redundant components.

Backout Plan:

If you need to back out of this policy, you can remove redundant components from your infrastructure. You can also update your disaster recovery plan to reflect the current state of your infrastructure.

Note:

  • This policy is not intended to be a comprehensive guide to building redundancy into production IT infrastructure. For more information, please refer to the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
  • The links in the "Reference" section are for informational purposes only. They do not constitute legal advice.

Section 2:

  • Tags and Keywords: redundancy, disaster recovery, availability, AWS Well-Architected Framework