AWS disaster recovery workflow for college websites using CloudWatch monitoring, EC2 AMI/EBS snapshots, RDS point-in-time recovery, and S3 backups to detect failures and restore service. The process flows from continuous monitoring through failure detection, parallel backup retrieval across compute, database, and file storage layers, and convergence at a restore and validation checkpoint. Route 53 DNS failover ensures traffic reroutes to recovered infrastructure without manual intervention. This architecture demonstrates AWS best practices for RTO/RPO optimization in educational environments where uptime directly impacts student and faculty access to critical services.