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Step 1: Configure a resilience policy - AWS Resilience Hub

Step 1: Configure a resilience policy

A resilience policy defines the resilience targets for your service, such as availability SLO targets, recovery time objectives (RTO), and recovery point objectives (RPO). In this step, you create a policy and apply it to your service.

Console:

  1. Choose Policies > Create policy.

  2. Enter a name (for example, Standard Availability).

  3. Enable Availability SLO and set it to 99.9%.

  4. (Optional) Enable Multi-Region DR if your application spans Regions.

  5. Choose Create.

  6. Navigate to your service and apply the policy.

AWS CLI:

# Create the policy aws resiliencehubv2 create-policy \ --name "standard-availability" \ --availability-slo '{"target": 99.9}' # Apply the policy to your service aws resiliencehubv2 update-service \ --service-arn "arn:aws:resiliencehub:us-east-1:123456789012:service/api-service:def456" \ --policy-arn "arn:aws:resiliencehub:us-east-1:123456789012:policy/standard-availability:ghi789"

For more information about policies, see Resilience policies.