Policy: AWS > Well-Architected Tool > AWS Well-Architected Framework > Reliability > REL 11. How do you design your workload to withstand component failures? > Fail over to healthy resources

Ensure that if a resource failure occurs, that healthy resources can continue to serve requests. For location failures (such as Availability Zone or AWS Region) ensure you have systems in place to fail over to healthy resources in unimpaired locations.

See Fail over to healthy resources for more information.

Targets

This policy targets the following resource types:

AWS > Well-Architected Tool > AWS Well-Architected Framework

Primary Policy

This policy is used with the following primary policy:

AWS > Well-Architected Tool > AWS Well-Architected Framework > Reliability > REL 11. How do you design your workload to withstand component failures?

Controls

Setting this policy configures this control:

AWS > Well-Architected Tool > AWS Well-Architected Framework > Reliability > REL 11. How do you design your workload to withstand component failures?

Policy Specification

Schema Type	`string`
Default	`Skip`
Valid Values [YAML]	`Skip` `True` `False`

In Your Workspace

Policy Settings by Type report

Developers

Category URI

tmod:@turbot/turbot#/control/categories/other

Policy Type URI

tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/rel11Failover2good

GraphQL

query policyType(id: "tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/rel11Failover2good") { … }

query policySettings(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/rel11Failover2good'") { … }

query policyValues(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/rel11Failover2good'") { … }

CLI

Get Policy Type

turbot graphql policy-type --id "tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/rel11Failover2good"

Get Policy Settings

turbot graphql policy-settings --filter "policyTypeId:tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/rel11Failover2good"