Protect Your Business with Disaster Recovery Planning

Overview

IT disasters, such as data center failures, server data corruption, and cyber-attacks, can disrupt your business, negatively impact your revenue, and damage your reputation. A disaster recovery strategy that balances your operational needs, budget, and objectives is imperative to business continuity and safeguarding company data.

As an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, Mission has proven experience developing reliable and effective disaster recovery plans. We can help you navigate disaster recovery options and work closely with you to create a proactive AWS disaster recovery plan that meets Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) or Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) to mitigate data loss and disruption to your business.

Business Continuity Plan (BCP) Alignment

An in-depth review of your current infrastructure, identifying critical data, applications, and resources to formulate a reliable disaster recovery plan that is aligned with your BCP.
Disaster Recovery Expertise

Guidance regarding the recovery of systems, networks, data, data flows, along with backup methods (snapshots, AMIs, etc.), frequency, retention periods, locations (AWS availability zones), and automation for performance monitoring and rapid restoration.
Cost-Effective Performance

Developing a cost-effective disaster recovery strategy is difficult. We’ll help you set goals for integrity and performance while accounting for your cost objectives.
Recovery Objectives (RTO/RPO)

Recovery Time Objectives (maximum allowable downtime before operations are restored) or Recovery Point Objectives (maximum allowable window for transaction loss during the disaster recovery process).
Coverage for all Types of Disasters

Proper configuration and testing of your DR methodology to ensure your protection and readiness against natural, technical, and human-made disasters.

Evaluate Infrastructure

Assess your current environment and identify requirements, including cost of ownership and business goals.
Develop Strategy

Determine the appropriate methods, services, and tools to meet your needs.
Implement & Test

We can assist in testing your strategy (game days) to ensure rapid, reliable recovery.

AWS Backup

AWS Backup is a cost-effective, fully managed, policy-based data protection service that simplifies data protection at scale. You can configure, manage, and govern your backup activity across your AWS accounts and resources.
Cross-Region Replication

Cross-region replication automatically copies objects across Amazon S3 buckets in different AWS regions and is particularly useful in supporting geographic compliance requirements.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS)

AWS DRS reduces downtime and data loss with the fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications using affordable storage, minimal computing, and point-in-time recovery.
Amazon CloudWatch

CloudWatch monitors and observes your AWS resources and applications, providing data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, and optimize resource utilization.
Infrastructure as Code

Mission leverages best-in-class infrastructure-as-code tooling like AWS CloudFormation and Terraform to accelerate and automate the provisioning of infrastructure and third-party resources in the event of failure.
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows you to maintain application availability while automatically adding or removing EC2 instances according to your specified conditions.

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"We knew we could benefit by working with a partner to advise us on best practices for the architecture and to help us learn what we do not know about the cloud. After doing some research and meeting with the Mission team, we were so impressed that we did not consider another AWS partner. Mission has great communicators across their entire team, and they always respond quickly to our questions.”

Ruslan Belyy

CTO of Intruity

What is RTO and RPO, and how do I measure them?

RTO (Recovery Time Objective) is the target time you set for the recovery of your IT and business activities after a disaster strikes. RPO (Recovery Point Objective) is the maximum allowable period in which data might be lost from an IT service due to a major incident. Taken together, these are a strong measurement for determining how your environment will recover in the event of an incident.

Isn’t disaster recovery just about how I backup my data?

While backing up data is crucial, this is not the only element of disaster recovery. Business continuity can be just as much about the loss of critical systems for operating as it is about data. You have to weigh the cost of any strategy you consider, and the compliance standards to which you’re being held, which can go beyond the integrity of data. If you’re running any kind of distributed architecture, using the microservices pattern for instance, the steps to restore may be much more involved. Consider that DR is also about how you coordinate teams during these events, along with testing, and drilling to ensure preparedness.

I want to ensure perfect integrity of my data and environment. Is this achievable?

In theory yes, but this ideal often forgets that there are certain elements that are out of our control—for example, external dependencies and how they will respond to an application that needs to recover, or the human teams executing the steps of your plan during a disaster. But the most glaring issue with this ideal is that it ignores cost. Redundancy begets cost, so while it may in theory be possible to prepare your environment for any scope of event, it may not be financially feasible. Disaster recovery planning is about understanding that these factors need to be weighed and designing a plan that accommodates them.

Once I’ve come up with a disaster recovery plan, I’m good to go, right?

Yes and no. Yes, because you’ve taken the first step for preparedness. But no, because you will need to drill and train on it. And because as your business grows and applications evolve, you will need to revisit and revise your plan to account for these changes. In this sense, much like security, disaster recovery is not one-and-done work which is ever truly finished. But a proactive investment in DR can pay dividends over a long period of time, especially if effort is made to maintain the plan.

How do I test my DR plan without affecting my production environment?

You can’t completely test a DR plan without actually running a game day on your environment as it is. You’ll want to test your failover procedures and in a real DR scenario you’ll be running on your alternate infrastructure, possibly for a significant amount of time—this means you’ll want to keep the alternate environment running for long enough to identify issues. And you’ll need to test your fail back procedures, getting your original environment online and in sync with the failover environment.

AWS Disaster Recovery Planning & Execution

Protect Your Business from Data Loss and Disruption

Rest Easy Knowing Your Environment is Prepared

Business Continuity Plan (BCP) Alignment

Disaster Recovery Expertise

Cost-Effective Performance

Recovery Objectives (RTO/RPO)

Coverage for all Types of Disasters

Pathway to a Strong Resilience Posture & Recovery Strategy

Evaluate Infrastructure

Develop Strategy

Implement & Test

Expertise and Tools to Best Meet Your Disaster Recovery Objectives

AWS Backup

Cross-Region Replication

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS)

Amazon CloudWatch

Infrastructure as Code

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

What is RTO and RPO, and how do I measure them?

Isn’t disaster recovery just about how I backup my data?

I want to ensure perfect integrity of my data and environment. Is this achievable?

Once I’ve come up with a disaster recovery plan, I’m good to go, right?

How do I test my DR plan without affecting my production environment?

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