AWS Disaster Recovery

A disaster recovery plan is a document. A tested one is insurance.

We design, implement, and validate your DR strategy, with live tested failovers before we sign off on your infrastructure.

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24% of organisations have a fully tested, up-to-date DR plan (Arcserve, 2023)
$300,000+ lost per hour of downtime, as reported by 90% of mid-sized enterprises (ITIC, 2024)
$5,600 average cost of IT downtime, per minute (Gartner)
Senior Delivery Team

DR strategies built by architects who have seen failure first-hand.

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Architect-Level Judgment

A disaster recovery strategy is only as good as the judgment behind it. Yemberzal brings senior AWS architect-level experience to every DR design engagement.

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Simulated Testing Rigor

We don't rely on paper checklists. We design real, physical failovers across multiple availability zones and timed recovery point checkpoints.

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Ransomware & Support

Multi-tier air-gapped protection configurations tailored to absolute isolation. Robust failover runbooks to counter malicious interventions.

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Board-Ready Compliance

Every drill, outcome, and recovery timing record formatted cleanly to verify system readiness for ISO 27001 or financial regulatory audits.

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AWS Certified Professionals

DR setups mapped around resilient well-architected disaster mitigation patterns. We verify your configuration against the AWS Well-Architected Framework to eliminate latent points of failure.

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10+ Years Enterprise Practice

Deep operational history resolving critical infrastructure outages under strict RTO thresholds. We bring a decade of hands-on high-pressure experience to protect your systems.

The Problem

Most businesses have a DR plan. Almost none have tested it.

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The Illusion of Preparedness

When did your team last simulate a real infrastructure failure? Not a backup verification. Not a dashboard check. An actual failover of your critical systems to a secondary environment, timed and recorded.

Untested DR plans contain assumptions. Those assumptions are discovered either during a controlled test or during a real incident. The cost of discovering them during an incident is orders of magnitude higher.

Ransomware, accidental deletion, AWS region failure, human error. Any of these can render your primary environment unavailable without warning. The only honest question is whether your current plan would hold up, and whether you have ever found out.

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Unchecked Fallbacks

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Sudden Fail Scenario

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RTO Assessment Drift

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Core Metrics

RTO and RPO: the two numbers that define your DR strategy.

RTO (Recovery Time Objective) Target time to full operational restoration Last Backup Incident Recovery Target Restored RPO (Recovery Point Objective) Maximum acceptable data loss window

RTO (Recovery Time Objective) defines how quickly you need your servers back online after a server failure. This could be minutes for consumer-facing systems or hours for secondary backoffice operations.

RPO (Recovery Point Objective) defines the maximum database data age we can stand to lose, defined in seconds or minutes since our last backup execution.

Every policy is configured uniquely around your targets. If you do not currently have defined metrics, establishing them is where our design begins.

Service Journey Map

From project to ongoing support.

Phase 1 — Initial Project

DR Risk Assessment

We assess your critical systems against defined RTO/RPO targets through a fixed-fee Business Impact Analysis, establishing exactly what needs protecting, how fast, and at what recovery tier.

Key Outcomes
  • check_circleSigned-off BIA identifying every critical system
  • check_circleAgreed RTO/RPO targets per system
  • check_circleA costed recovery-tier recommendation, ready to implement

Our Engagement Model

Our transition pathway from setup to operations

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Step 1
DR Design & Implementation

We map critical workloads, agree your RTO/RPO targets, and build the automated failover and backup systems to meet them.

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Phase 2 — Following DR Implementation

DR Management

Your infrastructure changes as workloads are added, routing dependencies shift, and team structures transform. Our Active Threat & DR Management retainer service secures and monitors your configurations continuously, conducting scheduled failovers, runbook refreshes, and annual strategy reviews.

Key Outcomes
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  • check_circleContinuous runbook refreshes
  • check_circleAnnual strategy reviews to prevent protection drift

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