# resilience-program-design

This skill designs a resilience program with policy tiers, availability, RTO/RPO targets, DR choices, and a cadence for resilience activities.

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- Author: aws
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/HEAD/skills/specialized-skills/resilience-skills/resilience-program-design/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
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## What it does

The skill helps classify services by business criticality and set availability, RTO, and RPO targets for each tier. It also maps tiers to DR approaches accepted by the AWS Resilience Hub API and flags combinations that do not fit the intended architecture.

For ongoing operations, it lays out a cadence: continuous ARC zonal autoshift practice, weekly findings review, monthly FIS experiments, quarterly cross-service GameDays, and event-driven checks after incidents or major deployments. It also covers least-privilege roles, short-lived IAM credentials, encryption, and access controls for resilience reports.

This is planning guidance for an organization, team, or portfolio. It does not configure a policy for one workload or run a step-by-step resilience lifecycle. The API accepts a fixed set of SLO and DR-approach values, so check `aws resiliencehubv2 create-policy help` before putting those values into standards.

## Requirements
- Works with: AWS

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill resilience-program-design -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/resilience-program-design/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/resilience-program-design/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill resilience-program-design -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/resilience-program-design/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill resilience-program-design -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/resilience-program-design/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws resilience-program-design
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/resilience-program-design/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill resilience-program-design -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --path skills/specialized-skills/resilience-skills/resilience-program-design
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/resilience-program-design/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill resilience-program-design -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/HEAD/skills/specialized-skills/resilience-skills/resilience-program-design/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- classify services by business criticality
- set availability, RTO, and RPO targets
- match each tier with a DR approach
- schedule FIS experiments and GameDays
- add IAM and encryption controls to program standards

## Example prompts
- Design a tiered resilience policy model for our service portfolio with availability, RTO, and RPO targets.
- Create a resilience cadence covering autoshift practice, Resilience Hub reviews, FIS experiments, and GameDays.
- Use `aws resiliencehubv2 create-policy help` to check valid SLO and DR-approach values, then map them to the criticality tiers.

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: resilience-program-design
description: >
  Designs a resilience program: how to structure and standardize resilience policies across an
  organization, team, or portfolio (tiered policy model with availability/RTO/RPO targets and DR
  approach selection), and how often to run resilience activities (operational cadence). Applies
  when the user asks how to structure policies org-wide, what tiers/targets to set, which DR approach
  fits a tier, or how frequently to run assessments, FIS experiments, GameDays, or autoshift
  practice. Does not apply to creating or configuring a specific policy or resource for a single
  workload (use resilience-hub-getting-started), to step-by-step lifecycle execution
  (see aws-resilience-lifecycle), or to service-specific setup.
version: 1
---

# Resilience Program Design

## Overview

Planning-level guidance for an organization's resilience program: how to structure policies by
tier, and how often to run resilience activities.

## Structuring resilience policies across an organization

Recommend a **tiered policy model** (not one policy per service): classify services by
business criticality and set policy targets accordingly.

- **Availability SLO** — higher as criticality rises. The API accepts only a fixed set of SLO
  values and rejects out-of-set ones, so **confirm the valid values from the API/docs**
  (e.g. `aws resiliencehubv2 create-policy help` or the Resilience Hub documentation)
  rather than relying on a hardcoded list — illustratively, values such as `99.9`/`99.95`/`99.99`.
- **RTO/RPO** — tighten as criticality rises (single-digit minutes for critical, hours for low).
- **DR approach** — match to criticality (more aggressive for more critical), using a value from
  the API's DR-approach enum — **verify the valid set via the API/docs** (e.g.
  `aws resiliencehubv2 create-policy help`); illustratively `ACTIVE_ACTIVE` …
  `BACKUP_AND_RESTORE`.

Example (illustrative — resolve the actual enum values against the API before recommending): payments/auth → `99.99` + single-digit-minute RTO + `ACTIVE_ACTIVE`; internal tools →
`99.9` + tens-of-minutes RTO + `WARM_STANDBY`; dev/test → `99.9` + multi-hour RTO + `BACKUP_AND_RESTORE`.

Warn against contradictory policies (e.g. the maximum SLO `99.99` with `BACKUP_AND_RESTORE`, or
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