Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

The uncomfortable question

How long would it take to bring your platform back if your primary cloud region became unavailable right now? Not the backup restore — the whole thing: database, object storage, message queues, DNS, certificates, identity.

Most teams cannot answer, and the honest reason is that finding out is expensive and nobody has been given the time.

What we build

We build the standby, then we time it. The number matters more than the architecture, because a number is what lets the business decide whether to invest further.

That means restoring real data volumes rather than a token dataset, standing the applications up against restored state, verifying that logins work and that the application behaves the same, and recording where the time actually goes. In practice the surprises are rarely the database — they are DNS authority, TLS certificates, hardcoded hostnames and identity providers that only exist in one place.

Why the rehearsal is the deliverable

A disaster recovery plan that has never been executed is a document, not a capability. The value is in discovering — calmly, on a Tuesday — that the restore script assumes a bucket that no longer exists, or that an application signs tokens with a key that lives only in the region you just lost.

We find those on the rehearsal, fix them, and re-run until the timing is repeatable. Then we hand you the runbook and the schedule to keep it honest.