Enabling and working with zonal autoshift - Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller
Enabling or disabling zonal autoshiftConfiguring, editing, or deleting a practice run configurationCanceling a practice run zonal shiftEnabling or disabling autoshift observer notification
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Enabling and working with zonal autoshift

This section provides procedures for working with zonal autoshifts in Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller, including enabling and disabling zonal autoshift, configuring practice runs, canceling in-progress practice runs, and enabling autoshift observer notifications.

Enabling or disabling zonal autoshift

The steps in this section explain how to enable or disable zonal autoshift on the Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller console. To work with zonal autoshift programmatically, see the Zonal Shift and Zonal Autoshift API Reference Guide.

When zonal autoshift is enabled, you authorize Amazon to shift away application resource traffic from an Availability Zone during events, on your behalf, to help reduce your time to recovery.

To enable or disable zonal autoshift

  1. Open the Route 53 ARC console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/route53recovery/home#/dashboard.

  2. Under Multi-AZ, choose Zonal autoshift.

  3. Under Resource zonal autoshift configurations, choose a resource.

  4. In the Actions menu, choose Enable zonal autoshift or Disable zonal autoshift, then follow the steps to complete the update.

If the resource doesn't have a practice run configuration, Enable zonal autoshift is not available. To configure a practice run configuration and enable zonal autoshift, choose Configure zonal autoshift.

Configuring, editing, or deleting a practice run configuration

The steps in this section explain how to edit or delete a practice run configuration on the Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller console. To work with zonal autoshift programmatically, including changes to practice run configurations, see the Zonal Shift and Zonal Autoshift API Reference Guide.

If you delete a practice run configuration in the console, zonal autoshift is disabled. Before you can delete a practice run configuration with an API operation, you must disable zonal autoshift. You can configure a practice run without enabling zonal autoshift. However, for zonal autoshift to be enabled for a resource, you are required to have a practice run configured for the resource.

To configure a practice run

  1. Open the Route 53 ARC console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/route53recovery/home#/dashboard.

  2. Under Multi-AZ, choose Zonal autoshift.

  3. Choose Configure zonal autoshift.

  4. Choose a resource to configure for zonal autoshift.

  5. Choose to disable zonal autoshift if you don't want Amazon to start an autoshift for a resource when there's an Amazon event. You can continue with the wizard to configure a practice run configuration without enabling autoshifts, if you choose.

  6. Choose options for practice runs for the resource. For alarms, you can do the following:

    • (Required) Specify an outcome alarm to monitor practice runs for this resource.

    • (Optional) Specify a blocking alarm for practice runs for this resource.

    For more information, see the Alarms that you specify for practice runs section in Best practices when you configure zonal autoshift.

  7. Optionally, specify blocked dates and blocked windows. Choose dates or windows (days and times) to block Route 53 ARC from starting practice runs for this resource. All dates and times are in UTC.

  8. Select the check box to confirm that you have read the acknowledgement note.

  9. Choose Create.

To edit a practice run configuration

  1. Open the Route 53 ARC console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/route53recovery/home#/dashboard.

  2. Under Multi-AZ, choose Zonal autoshift.

  3. Under Resource zonal autoshift configurations, choose a resource.

  4. In the Actions menu, choose Edit practice run configuration.

  5. Make changes to the practice run configuration, to do one or more of the following:

    • For alarms, you can do the following:

      • For the blocking alarm, you can add an alarm, delete the alarm, or specify a different blocking alarm.

      • For the outcome alarm that monitors practice runs, you can specify a different CloudWatch alarm to use. Outcome alarms are required, so you can't delete the outcome alarm.

    • For blocked dates and blocked windows, you can add new dates or days and times, or you can remove or update existing dates or days and times. All dates and times are in UTC.

  6. Choose Save.

To delete a practice run configuration

  1. Open the Route 53 ARC console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/route53recovery/home#/dashboard.

  2. Under Multi-AZ, choose Zonal autoshift.

  3. Under Resource zonal autoshift configurations, choose a resource.

  4. In the Actions menu, choose Delete practice run configuration.

  5. On the confirmation modal dialog, type Delete, and then choose Delete.

    Note that deleting a practice run configuration in the console also disables zonal autoshift for the resource. Zonal autoshift requires a practice run to be configured for the resource.

Canceling a practice run zonal shift

The steps in this section explain how to cancel a zonal shift on the Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller console. To work with zonal shift and zonal autoshift programmatically, see the Zonal Shift and Zonal Autoshift API Reference Guide.

You can cancel zonal shifts that you initiate yourself. You can also cancel zonal shifts that Amazon starts for a resource for a practice run for zonal autoshift.

To cancel a practice run zonal shift

  1. Open the Route 53 ARC console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/route53recovery/home#/dashboard.

  2. Under Multi-AZ, choose Zonal shift.

  3. Select a zonal shift that you want to cancel, and then choose Cancel zonal shift.

  4. On the confirmation modal dialog, choose Confirm.

Enabling or disabling autoshift observer notification

You can configure zonal autoshift to notify you, through Amazon EventBridge, whenever Amazon starts an autoshift to shift traffic away from a potentially impaired Availability Zone. You must configure this option in each Amazon Web Services Region that you want to receive notifications about. You do not have to configure any specific resources with zonal autoshift to enable these separate notifications. For more information, see Using zonal autoshift with Amazon EventBridge.

The steps in this section explain how to enable autoshift observer notification by using the Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller console. To work with zonal autoshift programmatically, see the Zonal Shift and Zonal Autoshift API Reference Guide.

To enable or disable autoshift observer notification

  1. Open the Route 53 ARC console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/route53recovery/home#/dashboard.

  2. Under Getting started, choose Enable autoshift observer notification.

  3. In the confirmation dialog box, choose Enable observer notification.