A cloud environment with no disaster-recovery plan was rebuilt from code in about 40 minutes
A global financial market-data provider. Outcome verified
about 40 minutes
The problem
A global financial market-data provider ran its flagship product on a large cloud footprint but had no cold disaster-recovery option. If the production cloud account were seriously damaged, there was no tested way to rebuild it. The environment had grown by hand for years, with dozens of interdependent resources and no record of what a rebuild would require.
Why it mattered
A destructive attack or an administrative error could take a revenue-producing product offline indefinitely, with no rebuild path and no way to estimate recovery time.
What we did
Rather than document the environment by hand, Vizius extracted the live production resources into infrastructure templates, deployed them into a separate backup account and restored the database from a point-in-time snapshot, proving the approach end to end. It then recorded the manual steps still standing between proof of concept and production-ready failover.
What changed
The proof-of-concept template recreated 74 cloud resources, with working service functionality, in a backup account in roughly 40 minutes. The deliverable also listed the remaining automation work needed to make it a viable ongoing failover option.
- Financial services
- Midsize company