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Caylent Catalysts™

Disaster Recovery Strategy

Determine the disaster recovery (DR) strategy best suited to protect your workloads on AWS, tailored to your budgets and recovery targets.

What is it?

Gain insights into potential failure scenarios and design a DR plan to protect your workloads.

Disaster Recovery (DR) is an essential but traditionally expensive component of most IT operations, often requiring a full representation of the operational platform in multiple, geographically distinct regions. By leveraging AWS native services for DR, you’ll gain flexibility and agility to explore a variety of scenarios that can be tailored to your budgets and recovery targets.

From Availability Zones (AZs) and Regions for fault isolation, to Amazon S3 for file storage, to Amazon Aurora global databases and Amazon DynamoDB global tables for data stores - Caylent will help you determine the services best suited for your business goals, as well as design the DR plan and architecture that best suits your requirements.

Through this engagement, Caylent will lead a series of enablement workshops and conduct a tabletop failure scenario exercise with your team to help envision where your workloads are most susceptible to disaster. We’ll walk through what the current response to the disaster would be, as well as how adoption of AWS services could have helped prevent downtime or restore services within the recovery time objective.

Key Activities

01 — Discovery and Planning

We’ll lead an enablement session on AWS services, structures & strategies as well as run a requirements mapping workshop to meet your DR & backup objectives.

02 — Education

Based on your requirements, we’ll conduct a thought exercise, addressing failure scenarios, recovery or fail back with recommended DR AWS services and architectures for one workload.

03 — Design and Enablement

Design high-level AWS DR architecture recommendations for one workload, provide TCO estimate and implementation action plan. We’ll also provide all documents & artifacts created.

Engagement Details

Disaster Recovery Strategy

Highlights
  • Gain an understanding of DR reference strategies & architectures, Backup & Restore, Pilot Light, Warm Standby, Multi-site active/active
  • Define DR goals around RTO/RPO, Multi-AZ & Multi-Region
  • Leverage our expertise in AWS services for DR across storage, databases, network IaC & CI/CD pipelines, secrets & config management, & logging & monitoring
  • Review DR testing practices: AWS GameDays, Chaos engineering with AWS Fault Injection Simulator
Deliverables
  • AWS DR architecture for selected workload
  • Prioritized roadmap based on targeted RTO & RPO
  • TCO estimate for recommended DR architecture
  • All diagrams and documentation developed in support of the engagement
  • All source code, scripts, templates, and other technical artifacts developed during the engagement

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AWS Control Tower

What is it?

A secure, compliant multi-account foundation, allowing you to quickly spin-up additional accounts, consolidate billing, group accounts, and apply policies to those groups.

Caylent’s experience working with complex technology organizations that require regulatory compliance has resulted in our team setting up hundreds of AWS Control Tower foundations. Caylent works alongside clients on new AWS Control Tower setups or can help organizations migrate from legacy account structure to AWS Control Tower.

This Catalyst© accelerates implementation of a production ready AWS foundation with AWS Control Tower.

Key Activities

01 — Discovery Call

Determine your current understanding and use of containers today as well as learn about your future state development objectives.

02 — Workshop

Based on your needs, you can choose to engage in up to 3 days of workshops which include; education, labs, deployment, reviews, initial consultation and scoping.

03 — Deployment

Deploy our configurable Catalyst© into your AWS account and participate in an enablement workshop using a sample Kubernetes application.

Deliverables

Architecture: Web Application Architecture on AWS

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AWS Control Tower Deployment

Deliverables

Accounts

  • Multi-account and Organizational Units (OUs) structure defined, documented, and deployed
  • Existing accounts imported into Control Tower (optional)

Guardrails

  • Control Tower Guardrails reviewed and applied
  • Select elective and strongly recommended guardrails and configure them

Best Practice VPC Deployed as Code

  • Availability Zones (AZs) (2, 3, or 4)
  • Default VPC deleted
  • Routing & network planning
  • Subnet tiers configuration and discussion
  • VPC Endpoints configured (optional)

Deployment

  • Configure and deploy Control Tower customization pipeline
  • Demo the pipeline operations and enhancements

AWS SSO

  • Enable SSO



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AWS Control Tower

What is it?

A secure, compliant multi-account foundation, allowing you to quickly spin-up additional accounts, consolidate billing, group accounts, and apply policies to those groups.

Caylent’s experience working with complex technology organizations that require regulatory compliance has resulted in our team setting up hundreds of AWS Control Tower foundations. Caylent works alongside clients on new AWS Control Tower setups or can help organizations migrate from legacy account structure to AWS Control Tower.

This Catalyst© accelerates implementation of a production ready AWS foundation with AWS Control Tower.

Key Activities

01 — Discovery Call

Determine your current understanding and use of containers today as well as learn about your future state development objectives.

02 — Workshop

Based on your needs, you can choose to engage in up to 3 days of workshops which include; education, labs, deployment, reviews, initial consultation and scoping.

03 — Deployment

Deploy our configurable Catalyst© into your AWS account and participate in an enablement workshop using a sample Kubernetes application.

Deliverables

Architecture: Web Application Architecture on AWS

Architecture: Web Application Architecture on AWS

AWS Control Tower Deployment

Deliverables

Accounts

  • Multi-account and Organizational Units (OUs) structure defined, documented, and deployed
  • Existing accounts imported into Control Tower (optional)

Guardrails

  • Control Tower Guardrails reviewed and applied
  • Select elective and strongly recommended guardrails and configure them

Best Practice VPC Deployed as Code

  • Availability Zones (AZs) (2, 3, or 4)
  • Default VPC deleted
  • Routing & network planning
  • Subnet tiers configuration and discussion
  • VPC Endpoints configured (optional)

Deployment

  • Configure and deploy Control Tower customization pipeline
  • Demo the pipeline operations and enhancements

AWS SSO

  • Enable SSO



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Disaster Recovery Assessment

AWS Control Tower

What is it?

A secure, compliant multi-account foundation, allowing you to quickly spin-up additional accounts, consolidate billing, group accounts, and apply policies to those groups.

Caylent’s experience working with complex technology organizations that require regulatory compliance has resulted in our team setting up hundreds of AWS Control Tower foundations. Caylent works alongside clients on new AWS Control Tower setups or can help organizations migrate from legacy account structure to AWS Control Tower.

This Catalyst© accelerates implementation of a production ready AWS foundation with AWS Control Tower.

Key Activities

01 — Discovery Call

Determine your current understanding and use of containers today as well as learn about your future state development objectives.

02 — Workshop

Based on your needs, you can choose to engage in up to 3 days of workshops which include; education, labs, deployment, reviews, initial consultation and scoping.

03 — Deployment

Deploy our configurable Catalyst© into your AWS account and participate in an enablement workshop using a sample Kubernetes application.

Deliverables

Architecture: Web Application Architecture on AWS

Architecture: Web Application Architecture on AWS

AWS Control Tower Deployment

Deliverables

Accounts

  • Multi-account and Organizational Units (OUs) structure defined, documented, and deployed
  • Existing accounts imported into Control Tower (optional)

Guardrails

  • Control Tower Guardrails reviewed and applied
  • Select elective and strongly recommended guardrails and configure them

Best Practice VPC Deployed as Code

  • Availability Zones (AZs) (2, 3, or 4)
  • Default VPC deleted
  • Routing & network planning
  • Subnet tiers configuration and discussion
  • VPC Endpoints configured (optional)

Deployment

  • Configure and deploy Control Tower customization pipeline
  • Demo the pipeline operations and enhancements

AWS SSO

  • Enable SSO



Related Case Studies

FAQs

Questions?

Browse our FAQ or get in touch.

Explore our other Catalysts© packages

Accelerate your cloud native journey

Leveraging our deep experience and patterns

Get in touch