How a US edtech provider eliminated its single point of failure by mirroring AWS production servers to a dedicated DR availability zone — with role-based access management and table-top failover testing.
A US-based educational service provider specializes in integrating technology into university classrooms across the country. Their cloud-based solutions have revolutionized how instructors and students interact. The organization serves customers through servers hosted on AWS "US East" data centers — but if production servers failed due to a cyberattack, there were no failover servers to route customer traffic to.
SIB's expert IT DR consultants designed a failover strategy that mirrored the production environment to AWS "US West" — establishing a dedicated DR site, configuring role-based access management, loading recovery procedures into the SIB platform, and conducting table-top exercises to validate the full failover capability.
If production servers on AWS "US East" went down due to a malicious cyber activity, there were no failover servers to route customer traffic — a critical single point of failure
The production environment was accessible to all IT personnel — requiring role-based access restrictions aligned to each employee's specific responsibilities
Recovery procedures had never been documented or tested — leaving the organization without validated failover know-how in the event of a production environment failure
SIB's IT DR consultants built a complete cloud failover strategy — from mirrored AWS availability zones to role-based access management and validated table-top recovery exercises.
A US-based educational service provider specializing in integrating technology into university classrooms across the country. Their cloud-based solutions have revolutionized the way instructors and students interact — making reliable cloud infrastructure a mission-critical business requirement.
AWS "US East" production servers lacked any failover capability — a cyberattack causing downtime would route all customer traffic nowhere. All IT personnel had unrestricted production environment access with no role-based restrictions. Recovery procedures were undocumented and untested.
SIB designed a failover strategy mirroring production to AWS "US West" as the dedicated IT DR site. The DR environment was configured to boot only when production servers were inaccessible — reducing cost. All recovery procedures were documented in the IT DR plan and loaded into SIB's software, with all responsible personnel identified.
SIB configured role-based access management for all IT personnel using Amazon's Identity Access Management and two-factor authentication APIs. Table-top exercises were conducted by shutting down the production environment and verifying personnel had the know-how to transfer data processing to the DR site successfully.
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SIB's expert IT DR consultants design complete failover strategies — from server mirroring and DR site configuration to recovery procedure documentation and personnel readiness validation.
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