Managing resiliency policies

This section describes how to create resiliency policies for your applications. Setting resiliency policies correctly enables you to understand your application's resiliency posture. A resiliency policy contains information and objectives that you use to assess whether your application is estimated to recover from a disruption type, such as software, hardware, Availability Zone, or AWS Region. These policies do not change or affect an actual application. Multiple applications can have the same resiliency policy.

When you create a resiliency policy, you define the target objectives: recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO). The objectives determine whether the application meets the resiliency policy. Attach the policy to your application and run a resiliency assessment. You can create different policies for the different types of applications in your portfolio. For example, a real-time trading application would have a different resiliency policy than a monthly reporting application.

Note

AWS Resilience Hub allows you to enter a value zero in the RTO and RPO fields of your resiliency policy. But, while assessing your application, the lowest possible assessment result is near zero. Hence, if you enter a value zero in the RTO and RPO fields, the estimated workload RTO and estimated workload RPO result will be near zero and the Compliance status for your application will be set to Policy breached.

The assessment evaluates your application configuration against the attached resiliency policy. At the end of the process, AWS Resilience Hub provides an assessment of how your application measures against the recovery targets in your resiliency policy.

You can create resiliency policies in Applications, and also in Resiliency policies. You can access relevant details about your policies, and also modify and delete them.

AWS Resilience Hub uses your RTO and RPO targets to measure resiliency for these potential types of disruptions:

• Application – Loss of a required software service or process.

• Cloud infrastructure – Loss of hardware, such as EC2 instances.

• Cloud infrastructure Availability Zone (AZ) – One or more Availability Zones are unavailable.

• Cloud infrastructure Region – One or more Regions are unavailable.

AWS Resilience Hub enables you to create customized resiliency policies or use our recommended, open standard resiliency policies. When you create customized policies, name and describe your policy and choose the appropriate level or tier that defines your policy. These tiers include: Foundational IT core services, Mission critical, Critical, Important, and Non-critical.

Choose the tier that is appropriate for your class of application. For example, you might classify a real-time trading system as critical, while you might classify a monthly reporting application as non-critical. When you use our standard policies, you can choose a resiliency policy with a preconfigured tier and values for the RTO and RPO targets by disruption type. If necessary, you can change the tier and the RTO and RPO targets.

You can create resiliency policies in Resiliency policies, or when you describe a new application.

Accessing resiliency policy details

When you open a resiliency policy, you see important details about the policy. You can also edit or delete the resiliency.

Resiliency policy details consist of two major views: Summary and Tags.

Summary

Basic information

Provides the following information about resiliency policy: Name, Description, Tier, Cost Tier, and Date Created.

Estimated workload RTO and estimated workload RPO

Shows the estimated workload RTO and estimated workload RPO disruption type associated with this resiliency policy.

Tags

Use this view to manage, add, and delete tags internal to this application.

To edit resiliency policies in Resiliency policy details

1. In the left navigation menu, choose Policies.

2. In Resiliency policies, open a resiliency policy.

3. Choose Edit. Enter appropriate changes in Basic Info, and RTO and RPO fields. Then choose Save changes.

To edit resiliency policies in Resiliency policy

1. In the left navigation menu, choose Policies.

2. In Resiliency policies, choose a resiliency policy.

3. Choose Actions, and then select Edit.

4. Enter appropriate changes in Basic Info, and RTO and RPO fields. Then choose Save changes.

To delete resiliency policies in Resiliency policy details

1. In the left navigation menu, choose Policies.

2. In Resiliency policies, open a resiliency policy.

3. Choose Delete. Confirm your deletion, and then choose Delete.

To delete resiliency policies in Resiliency policy

1. In the left navigation menu, choose Policies.

2. In Resiliency policies, choose a resiliency policy.

3. Choose Actions, and then select Delete.

4. Confirm your deletion, and then choose Delete.