Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) readiness check availability change - Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC)
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Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) readiness check availability change

After careful consideration, we decided to close the readiness check feature in Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) to new customers starting April 30, 2026. Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal.

ARC readiness check is a feature that enables you to monitor the readiness of your resources for disaster recovery. ARC continues to be available, but the readiness check feature will no longer be open to new customers starting April 30, 2026.

Important

ARC and ARC Region switch continue to be fully supported. Only the readiness check feature is affected by this change. There are no changes to Region switch, routing controls, zonal shift, and zonal autoshift.

Migration options

For capabilities similar to readiness check, we recommend onboarding your multi-Region application to ARC Region switch.

ARC Region switch is a fully managed service that provides complete multi-Region recovery orchestration. It includes a capability called plan evaluation, which regularly monitors the state of your Region switch plan to ensure readiness for execution.

To get started with ARC Region switch, see Region switch in ARC.