SCADA Disaster Recovery on Amazon Web Services for Inductive Automation’s Ignition

Authors: Fabio Bottoni, Ranjan Banerji |

Amazon Web Services (Amazon Web Services) is pleased to release a new workshop, SCADA Disaster Recovery on Amazon Web Services for Inductive Automation’s Ignition to help support users who are seeking implementation guidance on setting up an Amazon Web Services cloud-based disaster recovery environment for their Ignition SCADA by Inductive Automation. The workshop offers a step-by-step approach to help utility companies design and implement a cloud-based disaster recovery and failover environment.

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) is a critical component of any utility’s operations, be it for distribution, transmission, or generation. SCADA is how utilities control their operational environment and collect data in real- or near real-time for operational awareness and for planning generation and grid operations. SCADA is one of the most critical systems in a utility’s operations and must be secure, reliable, and resilient.

Modern day Operational Technology systems face not only threats such a flood, fire, storms, and earthquakes, but also cyber threats such as malware and ransomware. A cloud-based disaster recovery option offers utilities more resilience and increased reliability.

The workshop describes and demonstrates key concepts for users who are considering a cloud-based disaster recovery environment for their Ignition SCADA and provides the source code for creating this environment on Amazon Web Services under an “MIT No Attribution” MIT-0 open source license on GitHub. Users can get a jumpstart on building a disaster recovery environment using this workshop and can modify and extend the source code to meet their specific requirements.

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Fabio Bottoni

Fabio Bottoni

Fabio Bottoni is an EMEA specialist solutions architect for Amazon Web Services Energy. Fabio is focused on working with customers to support them in their digital transformation journeys using Amazon Web Services technology. As a builder, he loves to design and code new solutions. Prior to Amazon Web Services, Fabio worked for Enel X and Capgemini as an IT solutions architect, always with a specific focus on IoT use cases.

Ranjan Banerji

Ranjan Banerji

Ranjan Banerji is a Principal Partner Solutions Architect on the Amazon Web Services energy and utilities team. Ranjan has been at Amazon Web Services for 8.5 years, first on the department of defense (DoD) team helping the branches of the DoD migrate and/or build new systems on Amazon Web Services ensuring security and compliance requirements and now supporting the energy and utilities team. Ranjan's experience includes serverless architecture, industrial control systems, IoT, advanced metering infrastructure, and security and compliance for regulated industries. Ranjan has over 25 years of experience building and designing systems for the energy, DoD, federal agencies, and financial industry.


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