Ms to an existing VMware vCenterenvironment. The VMs resume normal operations immediately. 4 Cloud DR Server (CDRS) is the main backup and restore orchestrator. It runs on an Amazon EC2 instance in customer’s AWS account and keeps track of all backup activity. In response to a DR scenario, CDRS pulls the backed up VM images from Amazon S3 and restores them in VMware Cloud on AWS softwaredefined data center (SDDC) based on predefined restore policies. 3 Each local backup of VM is also duplicated in the AWS Cloud. Cloud DR Agent (CDRA) creates a secondary backup copy of the VM image in an Amazon S3 bucket owned by the customer. 2 A
