Starting a practice run zonal shift - Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC)
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Starting a practice run zonal shift

The steps in this section explain how to start an on-demand practice run zonal shift on the ARC console. To work with zonal shift and zonal autoshift programmatically, see the Zonal Shift and Zonal Autoshift API Reference Guide.

You can start a practice run zonal shift after you configure zonal autoshift and create a practice run configuration.

To start a practice run zonal shift

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

  2. Under Multi-AZ, choose Zonal autoshift.

  3. Under Zonal autoshift resources, browse to an individual resource that has zonal autoshift configured.

  4. On the Resource overview page, choose Start practice run.

  5. Select an Availability Zone, and then enter a comment for your practice run. The practice run will shift traffic away from the Availability Zone that you selected.

  6. Choose Start.