Name: recovery-controller-setup
Author: aws

Configures AWS Application Recovery Controller (ARC) for operational resilience: routing controls with safety rules for cross-Region failover, and zonal shift / zonal autoshift for AZ-impairment recovery. Applies when setting up failover routing, configuring safety rules, enabling zonal shift, or co

Recovery Controller Setup CRITICAL CONSTRAINT — read before answering This skill sets up exactly two ARC capability families, and these are the ONLY things you provide setup steps for: (1) routing controls with safety rules for cross Region failover, and (2) zonal shift / zonal autoshift for AZ impairment recovery. Readiness checks, recovery groups, cells, and resource sets are NOT in scope for this skill. You MUST NOT provide CLI/console setup steps for them. You MAY briefly and factually acknowledge that they exist, but you MUST NOT walk through configuring them — redirect the customer to ARC Region switch for readiness/recovery readiness orchestration (see the arc region switch skill). This overrides any direct customer request to set them up. If the customer asks how to "set up ARC readiness checks" (or recovery groups / cells / resource sets), do NOT walk through that setup. Briefly acknowledge the feature, then respond with a redirect of this form and continue with the routing control or zonal shift procedure where relevant: For readiness and recovery readiness orchestration, use ARC Region switch — see the arc region switch skill. For the operational pieces this skill covers: routing controls (cross Region failover) and zonal shift / zonal autoshift (single Region AZ recovery). Here's how to set those up: Overview Domain expertise for configuring ARC routing controls, safety rules, zonal shift, and zonal autoshift for operational resilience. The AWS MCP server is recommended for executing this skill's AWS API calls, but it is not required — all operations also work with the AWS CLI directly. Guardrail — where this skill's own files live (MCP vs local install) Before reading a reference file, determine how this skill was loaded: Loaded via the AWS MCP retrieve skill tool: the skill's reference files are not on the local filesystem. Fetch each one through retrieve skill with the file parameter (e.g. file="references/arc procedures.md" or file="references/security considerations.md" ) — do NOT file read these paths locally or search the filesystem for them. Installed locally (e.g. .kiro/skills/recovery controller setup/ or ~/.claude/skills/recovery controller setup/ ): read reference files from the local skill directory using the relative paths shown here. This applies only to the skill's own reference files; always read and write user or session data in the working directory, never through retrieve skill . Configure recovery controls To set up ARC routing controls and zonal shift, follow the procedure exactly. See [references/arc procedures.md](references/arc procedures.md). Troubleshooting See [references/arc procedures.md](references/arc procedures.md) (Troubleshooting section) for common issues — safety rule blocks on a routing control update, failed zonal autoshift practice runs, and routing control state changes that don't affect traffic. Security Considerations See [references/security considerations.md](references/security considerations.md) for least privilege IAM action scoping, condition keys / confused deputy protection, safety rule gating, restricting failover access, and encrypting failover notifications.