Ask HN: Do I need a DR plan in AWS?
I work for a very large organization and we have many systems that live in a single region in AWS, us-east-1.  While we use multi-AZ RDS instances and EC2 instances across multiple AZ&#x27;s we don&#x27;t have regular backups to another AWS region.  If us-east-1 was obliterated, we would lose a significant number of mission-critical systems.  My questions:<p>1. Is it safe to rely on AWS for DR across multiple AZs or must we plan for a whole region being obliterated?
2. Do you recommend any tools or practices that we can adopt to help us adopt a good-enough DR strategy?  It would be acceptable if getting back online business took a week or a few.