Modern cloud infrastructure requires not just high availability, but also robust disaster recovery and data durability strategies. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides powerful snapshot capabilities that enable data protection, compliance, and recovery across AWS environments. This Cloud Lab focuses on implementing lifecycle automation and cross-region replication to ensure durability, compliance, and minimal recovery times for critical workloads.
In this Cloud Lab, you’ll learn how to use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (Amazon DLM) to automate creating and retaining Amazon EBS snapshots. You’ll also configure an event-driven AWS Lambda function that listens for snapshot creation events and replicates snapshots to a secondary region. Together, these components enable a cost-efficient and resilient backup solution that supports high availability and fault tolerance across regions.
By the end of this Cloud Lab, you’ll have hands-on experience building an automated backup and recovery workflow using Amazon EBS, AWS Lambda, and Amazon EventBridge. You’ll learn how to manage snapshot lifecycle policies, enforce retention rules, and ensure cross-region redundancy; key skills for maintaining reliable and secure AWS infrastructure.
The resulting architecture at the end of this Cloud Lab will be as shown below:
