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Resilience & Disaster Recovery

Design and test the recovery path for the failures a system can't just monitor its way out of.

What this covers

Resilience is a design property, and recovery is a rehearsed process — neither holds up if it's only ever been diagrammed, not tested. We build both, then test them against realistic failure scenarios. That starts with knowing what failure would actually cost for each system, so recovery time and recovery point objectives are set by business impact rather than guesswork, then designing the redundancy, backups, and failover paths those objectives require.

Why it matters

A recovery plan that hasn't been run end-to-end is a hypothesis, not a plan. We treat testing the failure path as part of delivering it. A plan tested only on a whiteboard tends to reveal its gaps during the outage it was meant to prevent — testing it beforehand moves that discovery to a moment nobody is under pressure.

A practical next step

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What's included

Capabilities

01

Business impact & risk assessment

Identify which systems need which recovery time and recovery point objectives, based on what failure would actually cost.

02

High-availability architecture

Design redundancy across zones or regions matched to the availability target the workload actually needs.

03

Disaster recovery planning

Document and build the failover path for scenarios beyond a single component failure — region loss, data corruption, and similar.

04

Backup strategy design

Design backup frequency, retention, and storage location around the recovery objectives they need to support.

05

Failover testing & game days

Run scheduled failure exercises to confirm the recovery plan works before it's needed for real.

06

Runbook & response documentation

Write recovery runbooks the on-call team can follow under pressure, not just the people who wrote them.

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