Multi-Region Disaster Recovery

Implement a tested disaster recovery strategy that meets your RTO and RPO, before you need it.

Overview

DR planning that lives in a document is not DR planning. We design and implement a multi-region disaster recovery strategy with automated failover, regular testing, and runbooks — so when something goes wrong, recovery is fast and predictable.

Who this is for

• Applications with uptime SLAs requiring < 4 hour RTO

• Companies in regulated industries with DR requirements

• Organizations that have experienced data loss or extended outages

• Businesses where downtime directly costs revenue

Recovery objectives we design for

• Active-Passive (warm standby): 15–30 min RTO, near-zero RPO

• Active-Active (multi-region): < 1 min RTO, zero RPO for most failure scenarios

• Pilot Light: 1–4 hour RTO, variable RPO depending on replication lag

What we implement

Data replication

• RDS cross-region read replicas with automated promotion

• DynamoDB global tables for active-active scenarios

• S3 Cross-Region Replication with versioning

• Secrets Manager cross-region replication

Compute and routing

• AMI and container image replication to the DR region

• Route 53 health-check-based failover routing

• CloudFront origin failover configuration

• Pre-warmed Auto Scaling groups in the DR region

Infrastructure

• CDK-based infrastructure deployable in the DR region

• Automated failover runbooks with documented RTO/RPO expectations

Testing

• Quarterly DR test runbook

• Chaos engineering scenarios to validate recovery

• Documented test results and improvement backlog

Outcomes

• Documented and tested RTO/RPO

• Automated or semi-automated failover

• Regulatory compliance for DR requirements

• Confidence that your DR actually works