Disaster recovery on AWS, tested before you need it.

A backup becomes a recovery plan the first time someone restores from it under pressure and it works.

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What resilience is

Resilience is knowing how quickly you could be back, and having proved it rather than assumed it. We get you there in three stages, over a few weeks, covering a defined set of systems rather than everything at once.

Set the targets

How long each system can be down, and how much data you can afford to lose. Agreed with the people who carry the business impact, not assumed by IT alone.

Recovery time and recovery point, per workload

Build to meet them

The recovery pattern that hits those numbers at sensible cost, with backups, dependencies and runbooks written for whoever is on call rather than whoever built it.

Architecture, backups and runbooks

Prove it works

A real failover and restore, timed, run by your engineers with us alongside. You finish with a recovery time you have measured and evidence you can hand an auditor.

Rehearsal and written evidence

What resilience work actually delivers

Four outcomes. The last one is why most of these projects get funded.

Targets you can defend

How long you can be down, and how much data you can afford to lose, agreed per workload rather than assumed. These two numbers drive every other decision.

RTO and RPO, set deliberately

Architecture that matches them

Backup and restore, pilot light, warm standby or active-active. Each costs more than the last, and most workloads do not need the expensive one.

Pay for the recovery you actually need

A rehearsed failover

Run with your engineers, during working hours, until the procedure is dull. An untested plan is a hypothesis.

Practice before the real thing

Evidence for the people who ask

Auditors, insurers and enterprise customers all want proof of recovery capability. A tested result is a much better answer than a policy document.

Useful in questionnaires and renewals

What the engagement covers

Scoped to end with a tested recovery, not a document.

Targets per workloadRecovery time and recovery point agreed with the people who own the business impact, not picked by IT alone.
Dependency mappingWhat has to come back before what else can. This is usually where the first surprise lives.
Backup strategyImmutable, cross-region where it matters, with retention that matches your obligations rather than defaults.
Recovery architectureThe pattern that meets the target at the lowest sensible cost, built and documented.
Runbooks anyone can followWritten for whoever is on call at 2am, not for the person who built it, with the access they will actually have.
RehearsalA real failover and a real restore, timed, with your engineers running it and us alongside.
Evidence packWhat was tested, how long it took, and what it proves. The thing to hand an auditor or an insurer.

Short version: we turn an assumption about recovery into a measured, repeatable procedure.

Every team has some answer to this already

Three ways to handle recovery.

The first two are common and the difference between them and the third only shows up once.

Trust the backups

They run, the job reports success, and nobody has restored from them in anger. Usually fine. Occasionally catastrophic.

No extra spend · recovery time unknown · found out during the incident

Pay for standby you never test

A second environment on the invoice every month, built once and not exercised since. Comfort, without the evidence.

Ongoing cost · configuration drifts · still unproven on the day

Set targets and prove them

Decide what the business can tolerate, build to that, then rehearse it. The result is a number you can state with confidence.

A scoped project · a tested recovery time · evidence you can show

Worth being clear: most workloads do not need the expensive pattern. Knowing which ones do is most of the value.

Whether this is worth your time

Being straight about the fit costs us a few calls and saves everyone a wasted month.

Worth a conversation

Systems where a day of downtime would be a serious problem
Backups nobody has restored from in the last twelve months
An auditor, insurer or customer asking for proof of recovery
A recovery plan written for people who have since left

Probably not us

A rehearsed DR programme already running on a schedule
Workloads where an outage is genuinely tolerable for days
Looking only for a document to satisfy a checkbox
Nothing in AWS, and no plans to be

Twenty minutes, and you'll know where you stand

A conversation with an engineer who has run these recoveries, not a discovery call with a salesperson. Here is what happens on it:

Which systems would hurt most, and how quickly they would need to be back
What your backups cover today, and when they were last restored
Which recovery pattern fits, and what it would cost to run
What a rehearsal would involve for your team
Whether what you have is already good enough, which we will say if it is

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Open calendar, real availability this week. Bring the system you would least like to lose.