Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

Overview#

When a cloud region fails at 2 am, the question is not whether your team will respond quickly enough. The question is whether your platform was already designed to recover without them. The Disaster Recovery platform provides automated multi-region failover that detects regional failures, redirects traffic, resynchronises data, and validates service restoration before notifying the operations team that a failover occurred.

For organisations where service interruption carries real consequences, including emergency services dispatch, financial transaction processing, and critical infrastructure monitoring, this capability is not optional.

Key Features#

Multi-Region Replication: Data is continuously replicated across multiple geographic regions with configurable consistency modes. Automatic conflict resolution ensures data integrity during failover and failback operations.
Automated Failover: When health monitoring detects a regional failure, the system automatically executes recovery procedures including spinning up standby infrastructure, synchronising data, redirecting traffic, and validating service restoration, all without human intervention.
Continuous Health Monitoring: Hundreds of health metrics across compute, storage, networking, and application layers are monitored continuously. ML-based anomaly detection identifies potential failures before they cascade into outages.
Recovery Testing: Regular automated disaster recovery tests validate your failover procedures without impacting production. Test results are documented for compliance evidence and operational readiness verification.
Configurable Recovery Objectives: Set Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) targets per service and data tier. The platform optimises replication and failover strategies to meet your defined objectives.
Post-Failover Verification: After failover completes, automated verification confirms all services are performing within normal parameters before declaring recovery successful. Checks include data integrity, service health, and user access validation.
Failback Orchestration: When the original region recovers, the platform orchestrates a controlled failback with data resynchronisation, traffic migration, and step-by-step validation before returning to normal operations.
Compliance Documentation: Automated generation of disaster recovery documentation, test reports, and compliance evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS audit requirements.

Use Cases#

Law enforcement agencies operating dispatch and case management systems that cannot tolerate unplanned downtime during active incidents.
Government departments meeting statutory business continuity requirements with documented, regularly tested recovery procedures.
Financial institutions subject to regulatory mandates for recovery time objectives and continuous data availability.
Healthcare providers protecting access to patient records and clinical systems where service interruption directly affects care delivery.
Critical infrastructure operators maintaining operational continuity for monitoring and control systems across geographically distributed sites.

Recovery Capabilities#

Automated Failover: Traffic redirects to healthy regions when primary services fail, with no manual action required.
Data Replication: Continuous cross-region replication with configurable consistency levels from eventual to strong.
Service Recovery: Automated runbooks restore all platform services in the correct dependency order.
DNS and Traffic Management: Global traffic management routes users to the nearest healthy region automatically.
Stakeholder Communication: Automated status page updates and notifications during failover events keep affected parties informed without manual communications effort.

Open Standards#

AES-256-GCM (NIST SP 800-38D / FIPS 197): All backup archives are encrypted client-side using AES-256-GCM with a fresh per-blob Data Encryption Key and a 96-bit nonce, in direct accordance with NIST SP 800-38D recommendations, before they reach object storage.
PKCS#11 (OASIS PKCS#11 v2.40, CKM_AES_KEY_WRAP): Where a Hardware Security Module is present, each per-blob encryption key is wrapped under the platform Key-Encryption Key via the PKCS#11 CKM_AES_KEY_WRAP mechanism, keeping unwrapped key material confined to the HSM.
SHA-256 (FIPS 180-4): A SHA-256 checksum is computed for every backup archive at creation time and re-verified during integrity checks and restore operations to detect any tampering or corruption in transit or at rest.
Amazon S3-Compatible API (AWS S3 REST protocol): Backup archives are stored and retrieved via the S3-compatible object storage API, using standard presigned URLs and server-side encryption headers, enabling interoperability with any S3-compatible provider.
GraphQL: All backup management operations, including creating backups, scheduling, triggering restores, and querying metrics, are exposed through a typed GraphQL API with field-level authorisation.
Cron Expression Syntax (POSIX/Vixie cron): Automated backup schedules are defined using standard five-field cron expressions, validated at creation time, giving operators familiar and portable scheduling semantics.
ISO 8601: All timestamps surfaced through the API, including backup start/completion times, schedule next-run times, and expiry dates, are serialised in ISO 8601 format for unambiguous interoperability.

Getting Started#

Define Recovery Objectives: Set RTO and RPO targets for each service tier based on your business requirements.
Configure Replication: Enable multi-region data replication with appropriate consistency levels for your data classification.
Set Up Monitoring: Configure health check thresholds and alert routing for your operations team.
Test Failover: Run your first DR test to validate procedures and measure actual recovery times against your objectives.
Schedule Regular Tests: Establish a recurring DR test cadence to maintain readiness and generate compliance evidence.

Availability#

Enterprise Plan: Included (multi-region, automated failover, compliance documentation)
Professional Plan: Basic backup and recovery included; automated multi-region failover available as add-on

Last Reviewed: 2026-02-23 Last Updated: 2026-04-14