Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

Disaster recovery starts with classification, not technology. We work with your team to map every workload to a recovery tier with documented RTO and RPO targets -- typically Tier 1 (critical revenue path) at RTO 1 hour / RPO 15 minutes; Tier 2 (important but recoverable) at RTO 4 hours / RPO 1 hour; Tier 3 (batch and analytics) at RTO 24 hours / RPO 24 hours. The classification drives architecture, cost, and test cadence.

Backup and replication are tool-and-cloud appropriate. AWS-native workloads use AWS Backup for cross-account and cross-region snapshots with policy-as-code lifecycle. Kubernetes clusters use Velero for namespace-level backup with restic-encrypted volume snapshots. On-prem and VMware workloads use Veeam with cloud-tier offload to S3 Glacier. Stateful databases (RDS, Aurora, Postgres) use point-in-time recovery plus periodic automated restore-validation -- a backup that hasn't been tested isn't a backup.

DR drills happen on a real cadence: quarterly tabletop exercises walking through specific scenarios, annual full-failover tests against staging environments, and game-days when major architecture changes ship. Test results feed runbook updates so the playbook your on-call SRE follows at 3 AM matches what production actually looks like. Because our team's roots are in audit and compliance work, the same drills produce the evidence SOC 2 and HIPAA auditors expect.