One of the critical features in every organization should employ whether its small,

medium or large is Disaster Recovery. If Disaster recovery is not implemented in the

organization, it can lose millions of dollars or even can wipe out the entire existence of business.

From large scale natural calamities to hardware failures, the organization should be prepared to

revert all the operations within a short timeframe, if failed it should face the dire consequences.

Disaster Recovery is an essential part for an organization to keep the data safe and maintain the

business continuity. With threats becoming epidemic and sophisticated the organization should

have a robust disaster recovery plans to keep the mission critical business functions running.

Business owners always want to make sure that the integrity of the data is maintained and should

be secured, backed up, protected and recovered to be used during the disaster.

Our company Matilda Cloud Management Solutions provides solutions to our customers.

Our solutions consist of suite of solutions targeted to orchestrate and manage infrastructure and

services for any type of cloud provider. Matilda Cloud Management Solutions interfaces with all

major cloud providers and automates the process for most commonly used cloud operations.

Matilda comprises of different projects to provision and manage complete IT environment with

minimal effort from development team. Matilda is designed to scale automatically with increased

load and self-healing capability.

We develop solutions for our customers for discovering the assets on premise and

provide an analytical report about the cost and usage of these assets and suggest them with

various cloud service providers options to migrate their data from on premise to cloud. For

analysis we collect sensitive data of their infrastructure and process them for analysis reports.

We must make sure that our customer data is not compromised or lost in case of any disaster
occurred. This can not only impact the existing processes of out projects and timelines but can

also disrupt our business operations and the relationships with our clients.

For our Disaster Recovery Plan, we want to have a balance between the complexity and

cost of implementation. We are focusing in five key concepts and considering three

Organizations who have the Disaster Recovery Plans with industry specification and maintain

the gold standards in the specific domain.

Recovery Point Objective (RPO): is the minimum amount of the data that our organization is

acceptable to lose in an event of disaster.

Recovery Time Objective (RTO): the acceptable amount of time for recovering the applications

and services in case of a disaster.

Personnel: is the point of contact during the disaster, which teams have the priority for data?

Who are responsible for maintain and supporting the backup process?

Regulatory Constraints: What are the regulatory constrains need to be followed while creating a

Disaster Recovery Plan.

Critical Data: Identifying the critical data for our business and the dependencies of that data in

different areas of our business process.

Disaster Recovery Plan of AWS (Amazon Web Services)

Amazon Web Services is a cloud service provider which has well documented and a

structured approach in its Disaster Recovery Plan. It provides necessary instructions to recover

the impacted systems and networks in the organization and run the business operations to as

normal as possible.

AWS provides data backup plan to backup the data at regular intervals which helps in

preparing the recovery. Its plan is designed to meet the company needs and maintains the balance

in the amount spent for data backup and restoration versus the money that can be lost during the

downtime. It has the Amazon Machine Images and EBS snapshots as a backup options for its

data and applications. They also prepare the list of critical applications to gain the idea about the

downtime loss that company could face. They provide cost effective methods like Amazon S3

for quick back up and restoration of data.

Pilot Light method provides data and critical applications to recover quickly and Warm

Standby will duplicate the data copy all times to recover in less downtime. Its Disaster Recovery

plan has methods of quick revival and retrieval of data with high performance. Its Disaster

Recovery Plan addresses the industry recognized audits and certifications with reliable and

scalable services. The only issue that we found this Disaster Recovery Plan is that if the Internet

is not available while the disaster has occurred it is impossible to retrieve the backed-up data

since all the data will be stored on the cloud data centers.
Disaster Recovery Plan of Microsoft Azure