Organizations running containerized workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) need resilient strategies that protect both application configurations and stateful data against Regional disruptions. While single-Region architectures with multi-AZ deployments serve many availability requirements well, some workloads demand cross-Region disaster recovery (DR) to meet stringent recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) mandated by regulatory or business continuity requirements.