DR is important from business continuity, Compliance per say for any organization. Businesses are using the AWS cloud to enable faster disaster recovery of their critical IT systems without incurring the infrastructure expense of a second physical site.

The AWS cloud supports & scale up at a moment’s notice to “hot standby” environments that enable rapid failover. With data centers in 12 regions around the world, AWS provides a set of cloud-based disaster recovery services that enable rapid recovery of your IT infrastructure and data.