Consult
No AWS access required. Discuss critical applications, current recovery, objectives, constraints and the most useful next step.
Engagement
From first conversation to tested recovery.
A structured engagement designed to leave your team with executable code, recovery evidence and operational ownership—not only a strategy document.
Six-stage journey
Clarity first. Automation second. Evidence throughout.
30-60 minutes
Assess
Map scope, dependencies, data path, identity boundaries, gaps and evidence needed for a business case.
Design
Produce target architecture, Active-Warm posture, security model, sequence and implementation backlog.
Build
Implement discovery, Terraform generation, mapping, promotion, pipelines, orchestration and runbooks.
Test
Recover, validate three tiers, measure objectives, document findings and tune warm capacity.
Handover
Deliver code, architecture, evidence, runbooks and knowledge transfer with optional advisory support.
Detailed build stage
Multi-account. Multi-Region. Built in dependency order.
An illustrative 16-week build window after assessment and design. Workstreams overlap; the exact sequence depends on the estate, service availability, recovery objectives and which container platforms are in scope.
Configure once. Operate continuously.
Replication rules and target-account foundations are established early, then monitored as production changes.
Capture configuration. Recover state.
Terraform reconstructs service configuration; data protection uses the appropriate native replication, backup or restore path.
Recreate trust deliberately.
IAM, keys and certificates are mapped into the recovery account rather than copied blindly across security boundaries.
Build workstreamW1–2W3–4W5–6W7–8W9–10W11–12W13–14W15–16
A · Recovery foundations
01 · DR account & Region baselineQuotas, remote state, deployment roles, naming, tagging and break-glass access.
02 · Identity, encryption & certificatesRecreate least-privilege IAM mappings, target KMS keys and validated ACM certificates.
03 · Artifact & secret replicationECR and S3 rules, AMI copy automation and an approved cross-account secret workflow.
04 · Stateful storage recovery pathsSelect and automate EFS, FSx, snapshot, backup or database-native patterns by RPO.
B · Continuous capture & reconstruction
05 · Network core TerraformVPC, subnets, routes, associations, NACLs, security groups, endpoints, EIP, NAT, IGW and TGW.
06 · Traffic, edge & security servicesALB/NLB, listeners, target groups, API Gateway, CloudFront, WAF, Network Firewall and DNS controls.
07 · EC2, serverless & integrationLaunch templates, instance/EBS mapping, Lambda, SNS, SQS and Region-specific SES configuration.
08 · Amazon ECS recovery moduleClusters, services, task definitions, capacity providers, Auto Scaling groups and service discovery.
09 · Amazon EKS recovery moduleControl plane, node groups, add-ons and workload desired state: namespaces, services and ingress.
10 · Observability & operational evidenceLog retention and archives, alarms, dashboards, metrics, subscriptions and recovery evidence.
11 · Capture, quarantine & promotion pipelineScheduled discovery, ID-to-reference mapping, scanning, isolated apply tests and signed promotion.
12 · Integrated recovery exercisesNetwork, data and application tests; dependency fixes; timed recovery and controlled traffic switch.
13 · Runbooks & operational handoverIncident sequence, approvals, rollback, ownership, training and final evidence pack.
Recovery foundations Codification modules Assurance & handover
Scope note: Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS can run in parallel when both are required. Kubernetes pods are not treated as durable infrastructure; the recovery source is the declared workload state, persistent data and tested platform configuration.
What the client receives
Concrete recovery assets.
DR architecture
- Target architecture and plan
- Dependencies, risks and roadmap
- Recovery objective assumptions
Terraform & automation
- Modular recovery infrastructure
- Pipelines, locks and manifests
- Operational runbooks
Multi-Region recovery
- Network, identity and encryption
- ECS/EKS Active-Warm posture
- Data recovery integration
Failover orchestration
- Route 53 / ARC pattern
- Controlled simulation
- Approval gates
Evidence & validation
- Timed recovery exercise
- Three-tier results
- Findings and lessons
Operational handover
- Code documentation
- Knowledge transfer
- Optional ongoing advisory
Indicative delivery
Typical DRaaS onboarding: 4-7 months.
Focused DR-as-Code projects may be shorter; complex enterprise DRaaS onboarding can run beyond seven months. Timing depends on service count, data topology, cross-account controls, test windows and remediation. The initial consultation can identify a smaller pilot.