Concise summaries of official AWS update announcements for AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery.
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Information as of November 3, 2026.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports disaster recovery for AWS Graviton-based (arm64) source servers, allowing you to protect and recover Graviton workloads with the same simple, reliable DRS experience used for x86 workloads.
AWS DRS now offers Recovery Plans to automate the sequential startup of multi-server applications during recovery and drills, improving efficiency and reducing errors.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now preserves UEFI boot mode when recovering Linux servers that boot with UEFI firmware. This ensures recovered instances match the source environment, allowing UEFI-dependent applications to function as expected without additional post-recovery steps.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery expands to six new regions, enabling recovery of applications from physical infrastructure, VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and cloud platforms
AWS DRS now skips preparation steps for EC2-based AWS workloads, reducing recovery time by up to 65% for Windows and 40% for Linux
AWS DRS now supports setting Amazon EBS volume initialization rates, enabling recovered volumes to reach full performance faster during drills and recoveries-particularly beneficial for I/O-intensive workloads.
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