Media Company Disaster Recovery
- 4-Hour
- RTO Achieved (from 24+ hours)
- 1 Hour
- RPO for All Data
- 50TB
- Assets Protected Multi-Region
- 100%
- Compliance Requirements Met
About the Client
A media company with 50TB of irreplaceable video assets and no disaster recovery plan.
The Challenge
50TB of irreplaceable media assets stored in single data center with no offsite backup
Previous disaster recovery plan existed only on paper with no actual testing or validation
RTO of 24+ hours unacceptable for 24/7 streaming platform with global audience
No automated failover meant manual intervention required during any outage scenario
Compliance requirements mandated geographic redundancy for content licensing agreements
The Solution
Multi-region disaster recovery with intelligent storage tiering for cost efficiency.
S3 Cross-Region Replication | S3 Glacier | Route 53 | AWS Backup | CloudFormation | DR Drills
Technical Implementation
Designed multi-region architecture with primary in us-east-1 and DR site in us-west-2
Implemented S3 Cross-Region Replication for media assets with S3 Glacier for archival content
Configured Route 53 health checks with automatic DNS failover to DR region
Set up RDS cross-region read replicas with automated promotion scripts for database failover
Created Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation) for consistent environment recreation
Implemented quarterly DR drills with documented runbooks and post-drill improvements
Results & Business Impact
- 4-Hour
- RTO Achieved (from 24+ hours)
- 1 Hour
- RPO for All Data
- 50TB
- Assets Protected Multi-Region
- 100%
- Compliance Requirements Met
Technology Stack
- AWS S3
- Glacier
- Route 53
- AWS Backup
- CloudFormation
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