Minimizing Downtime from Lengthy AWS Outages

Well, it happened again…  Another lengthy EBS outage in the US-East region impacted several sites across the net.  While failures like this are rare, they can be quite costly and translate into headaches for the operations team when impact production systems for any length of time.  At Percona, we routinely help clients architect and deploy highly available systems designed with disaster recovery in the cloud.  Here are a few high level best practices that I’ve seen when helping clients with AWS deployments: