On the 30th of March we organized the AWS Architectural Resilience Day at our AWS offices in Bucharest (Globalworth Building A, 11th floor). It was a full day of interactive talks and hands-on workshops focused on architectural best practices for building resilient workloads on AWS.
The day kicked off with a chalk talk on Well-Architected Reliability best practices, covering the 66 best practices from the Reliability Pillar and how to apply them to meet resiliency needs. We then moved into a hands-on workshop on AWS Resilience Hub, where participants got to define resilience targets (RTO and RPO), run automated assessments and integrate with AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) to test that targets can be met under different failure conditions.
After a catered lunch, we continued with a chaos engineering workshop where attendees used FIS to simulate various failures, from the loss of a single Amazon EC2 instance to the loss of an entire Availability Zone. The afternoon sessions covered AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) for fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications, and wrapped up with a session on implementing a Correction of Error (CoE) process using Incident Manager from AWS Systems Manager.
All sessions were delivered by members of the Enterprise Solutions Architect team covering Romania: Andra Somesan, Ionut Dragoi, Cosmin Pascu and myself. It was great to see so many customers eager to learn about resilience!
You can check the full agenda on the event page.
