Will a test affect production?

No. Restores run in an isolated recovery account, and failover drills use the standby environment with stop conditions. Nothing in production changes unless you approve a fix.

Which DR strategies does it support?

Backup and restore, pilot light, warm standby and active/active. Agents test whatever your plan says, against the objectives you set.

What do auditors get?

An evidence pack from every run: what was tested, the measured recovery time and data loss window, what failed, and how it was fixed.

How often should we test?

Most teams start monthly for critical systems and quarterly for the rest. Agents also re-test after a fix, so you know the gap is closed.

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Frontier Resolutionfor Disaster Recovery

Backups and failovers proven to work every month, not assumed.

Most recovery plans are tested once a year, if at all. Agents restore your backups into an isolated account, run failover drills on a schedule and measure the result against your recovery objectives. You find out what would really happen in an outage, and get the fix for every gap before you need it.

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Scheduled recovery testgap found

Monthly restore test: orders-db and payments-api

Target: RTO 1 hour, RPO 15 minutes for the order path
Restore: orders-db snapshot restored in an isolated account in 22 min
Failover: payments-api up in us-west-2 in 48 min
Gap: Secrets not replicated. App needed a manual fix to start
Fix: Enable Secrets Manager replication. Change ready to review

Measured RTO 71 min against a 60 min target

[The work behind every recovery plan]

Backups run every night.Nobody knows if they restore.

01The manual work

Hope

The DR plan lives in a document. Restores are tested once a year, take a weekend, and the findings are out of date by spring.

02The agent handoff

Recovery proven

Frontier agents restore and fail over in isolation on a schedule, time every step and prepare a fix for each gap they find.

03Your engineers’ role

Approve

Set the recovery objectives and the test calendar. Approve the fixes and sign off the results.

[Where CloudThinker fits]

Your stack stays.Agents work inside it.

01Backups and replicas

What you already protect

AWS Backup and Elastic Disaster RecoveryVaults, recovery points, replication
Azure Backup and Site RecoveryVaults and failover plans
Google Cloud Backup and DRBackup plans and recovery
DatabasesAurora, RDS and PostgreSQL replicas
Amazon S3Versioned and replicated buckets

No change to backup policy

02Recovery plan

Your system of record

TerraformStandby infrastructure as code
Amazon Route 53DNS failover records
ServiceNowDR plans and change records
GitHub and GitLabRunbooks and recovery scripts

The plan stays yours

03Recovery drills

CloudThinker

Restore in isolationProve backups open and data is whole
Run the failoverScheduled drills inside a window
MeasureReal RTO and RPO against targets
Find the gapsMissing replicas, secrets and DNS

Drills run in isolated accounts

04Evidence

Proven, then filed

SlackDrill summary for the team
JiraGaps with owners and dates
DatadogHealth checked during failover
Audit evidence packResults your regulator can read

Failover runs on approval

Logos show common stacks. CloudThinker connects to each one through scoped access you approve.

[Example scenario]

First Wednesday, 10:00. The monthly DR test.Nothing is on fire. Yet.

A payments company with a 1-hour RTO and 15-minute RPO for its order path, primary in us-east-1 with a warm standby in us-west-2. The regulator asks for annual DR evidence.

10:00
Test starts in isolationAgent
Copies last night’s AWS Backup recovery points for orders-db into an isolated recovery account. Production is not touched.
10:22
Restore verifiedAgent
orders-db restored and checked: row counts match, latest transaction 9 minutes before the backup. Inside the 15-minute RPO.
10:24
Failover drillAgent
Starts payments-api in the us-west-2 standby and runs synthetic orders against it.
10:58
App fails to startSignal
payments-api cannot read its database secret. The secret exists only in us-east-1.
11:11
Gap measured, fix proposedAgent
Measured RTO 71 minutes against 60. Proposes Secrets Manager replication to us-west-2 as a Terraform change, PR #902.
14:00
SRE lead approvesYour team
Merges the change, schedules a re-test for Friday, and downloads the evidence pack for the audit file.

#dr-testing4 messages

CloudThinker10:22
Restore check passed. orders-db restored in 22 min in the recovery account. Data loss window 9 min, inside the 15 min RPO.
CloudThinker11:11
Failover gap: payments-api could not read prod/payments/db in us-west-2. Secret is not replicated. Measured RTO 71 min, target 60. Fix: replicate the secret, PR #902.
SRE lead14:00
Merged. Re-run the failover on Friday please.
CloudThinker14:01
Re-test scheduled for Friday 10:00. Evidence pack for this run saved to the DR audit folder.

measured RTO, found in a test not an outage: 71 min
gap found with the fix ready: 1
changes made to production during the test: 0

An illustrative example. Team, systems and times are representative, not a specific customer.

[Frontier resolution agents]

Every backup gets restored.Every plan gets proven.

Agents test recovery on a calendar, so your RTO and RPO become measured numbers, not targets, and every gap arrives with a fix ready to review.

Restore every backup: Recovery points restored into an isolated account and checked for completeness, not only for a green status.
Drill the failover: Standby regions started and tested with synthetic traffic, with stop conditions so a drill never becomes an outage.
Measure RTO and RPO: Every step timed against your objectives, so you know the real recovery time for each system.
Keep the evidence: Each test produces an evidence pack for auditors and regulators: what ran, how long it took, what failed.

[What changes]

Same team. Same tools.Far less of the work by hand.

Moment	Today	With frontier agents
Restore testing	Once a year, if at all	Every month, on a schedule
Recovery time	A target in a document	A number measured in each test
Gaps in the plan	Found during a real outage	Found in a drill, fix ready
Test effort	A weekend for the whole team	Runs in isolation, reviewed in an hour
Audit evidence	Written up after the fact	Produced by every run

[Integrations]

Connects to the rest of your stack.Read-only to start.

AWS Backup
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
AWS Fault Injection Service
AWS Secrets Manager
Amazon RDS
Amazon Aurora
Amazon S3
Amazon Route 53
Terraform
GitHub
GitLab
Datadog
PagerDuty
ServiceNow
Slack

[Adoption path]

One pilot.Then company-wide.

The rollout follows the four phases of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework, so it fits the plan your cloud team already runs.

01Envision
Test one critical system
Pick the system with the strictest objectives. Agents restore its backups in an isolated account and report what they find.
02Align
Write the objectives down
Agree RTO and RPO per system, the test calendar, and the stop conditions for every drill.
03Launch
Cover the critical path
Add the services, data stores and dependencies the business needs first after an outage.
04Scale
Make it the default
New systems get recovery tests from launch. Evidence lands in the audit folder every month.

[AWS guidance]

Built the way AWS says to run it.Reviews start from a known reference.

[Trust and control]

Agents do the work.Your team keeps control.

You approve every change: Agents propose. Nothing touches production until someone on your team says yes, and you set that rule per system.
Every action on the record: Each step is logged, attributed and reversible, ready for your auditors.
Certified for enterprise: SOC 2 Type II and ISO 42001, with reports in our trust center.
Runs where you need it: In our cloud, through AWS Marketplace, or inside your own account.

[Questions]

What teams askbefore they start.

Will a test affect production?: No. Restores run in an isolated recovery account, and failover drills use the standby environment with stop conditions. Nothing in production changes unless you approve a fix.
Which DR strategies does it support?: Backup and restore, pilot light, warm standby and active/active. Agents test whatever your plan says, against the objectives you set.
What do auditors get?: An evidence pack from every run: what was tested, the measured recovery time and data loss window, what failed, and how it was fixed.
How often should we test?: Most teams start monthly for critical systems and quarterly for the rest. Agents also re-test after a fix, so you know the gap is closed.

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