Disaster Recovery

When a region goes down,
you stay up.

Backups that are actually tested, defined RTO/RPO targets, rehearsed failover, and resilient data pipelines — so a bad deploy or a lost region is an incident, not an extinction event.

DR Problems We Solve

🎲 Untested Backups

"We have backups" means nothing if you've never restored from them. Many companies discover their backups are broken during the actual disaster.

❓ Unknown RTO/RPO

How much data can you afford to lose? How long can you be down? If you can't answer these, you can't plan recovery.

🚫 No Failover Plan

When us-east-1 goes down, what happens? If the answer involves "figure it out then," you're in trouble.

📝 Paper Plans

A DR document nobody's read and never been tested. It's outdated, incomplete, and useless when you need it.

Disaster Recovery Services

DR Assessment

Audit your current backup and recovery capabilities. Identify gaps, define RTO/RPO targets, prioritize fixes.

  • Backup coverage audit
  • RTO/RPO definition
  • Single points of failure identification
  • Recovery capability testing

Backup Strategy

Design and implement backup strategies that match your RPO. Automated, verified, and cost-effective.

  • Database backup automation
  • Cross-region replication
  • Point-in-time recovery setup
  • Backup verification automation

Multi-Region Architecture

Active-passive or active-active multi-region setups. Stay operational even when an entire region fails.

  • Multi-region Kubernetes
  • Database replication
  • Global load balancing
  • DNS failover (Route 53, Cloud DNS)

Failover Automation

One-click (or automatic) failover. No scrambling, no manual steps, no hoping it works.

  • Automated failover triggers
  • Health check configuration
  • Runbook automation
  • Failback procedures

DR Testing & Drills

Regular, scheduled DR tests. Chaos engineering, game days, and tabletop exercises.

  • Scheduled recovery drills
  • Chaos engineering (Gremlin, Litmus)
  • Tabletop exercises
  • Post-drill improvements

Runbook Development

Step-by-step recovery procedures that actually work. Tested, updated, and automated where possible.

  • Recovery runbooks
  • Communication templates
  • Escalation procedures
  • Post-incident review process

DR Results

< 15 min

Recovery time achieved

Designed and implemented multi-region failover for a fintech. Quarterly DR drills consistently achieve < 15 minute RTO.

Multi-region · AWS · Automation

0 data loss

During production incident

A SaaS company's database corrupted during a failed migration. Cross-region replica took over — zero data loss, 8 minutes downtime.

RDS · Multi-AZ · Failover

3 hours

Rebuild time for full stack

With infrastructure as code and automated recovery, an e-commerce platform can rebuild their entire stack from scratch in 3 hours.

Terraform · Backup · IaC

Disaster Recovery FAQ

What's a reasonable RTO/RPO for a startup?

Depends on your business. E-commerce might need RTO < 1 hour, RPO < 5 minutes. Internal tools might tolerate 24-hour RTO. We help you define targets based on business impact, not technical preference.

Do we need multi-region?

Not always. Multi-AZ (within a region) handles most failures and is much simpler. Multi-region for: regulatory requirements, specific geographic needs, or business-critical applications that can't tolerate regional outages.

How often should we test DR?

Quarterly at minimum. More critical systems monthly. Backup verification should be automated and continuous. We help establish a sustainable testing cadence.

What about ransomware?

Immutable backups (AWS Backup Vault Lock, S3 Object Lock) that can't be deleted even with admin credentials. Air-gapped copies for truly critical data. We design backup strategies that survive compromise.

Ready to survive the next disaster?
Start with a free DR assessment.

We'll audit your current backup and recovery capabilities, identify critical gaps, and give you a prioritized plan to achieve real resilience.

Get Your Free DR Assessment