DRP

Implementation
and
Documentation
S H W E TA P R A J A PAT I

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 Key Components :

Risk Assessment and Business Impact Analysis (BIA):

Identifies critical systems and functions.

Determines RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery

Point Objective).
Building the Recovery Strategies :
Disaster Recovery Backup and restore
(DR) Plan Alternate site recovery (hot/cold/warm)

Cloud-based recovery solutions

Technology Infrastructure :

Data centers, cloud systems, network architecture

Hardware/software dependencies
 Stakeholders and Responsibilities

IT Team Management/Executives
Stakeholder Implement recovery tools, Approve DR budget,
Responsibilities maintain backups, run policies, and coordinate
recovery drills high-level strategy

Compliance Officers
DR Coordinator Communications Team
Ensure adherence to
Central point of contact Internal/external
legal/regulatory
during disaster communications in crisis
frameworks
 DR Plan Structure: SOPs, Resource Inventory,
Escalation Paths
Include screenshots,
command-line
Standard Operating Step-by-step Manual operations
Backup procedures System failover instructions, and
Procedures (SOPs) instructions for: during IT outages
credentials storage
process (secured).

Cloud resources: S3
Hardware: servers, Software: applications, Personnel: contact list
Resource Inventory buckets, VMs, storage Escalation Paths
networking gear licenses, OS with roles
types

Who to notify and how When to engage

Clearly define incident Chain of command
(email, phone, SMS, external support (e.g.,
severity levels (Level 1 to Level 3)
ticketing system) cloud vendors)
 Internal Communication

Tools: Slack, Teams, emergency SMS/email systems

Pre-approved message templates

Define communication cadence (hourly/daily updates)

Communication External Communication

Customers: status pages (e.g., status.aws.amazon.com)

Plans During a Vendors: coordinate alternate delivery/supply options

Disaster Media: designated spokesperson and press release templates

Crisis Communication Best Practices

Accuracy over speed

Single source of truth

Redundant communication channels

 Global Infrastructure: Multi-AZ Deployments:
Amazon Web Services
Regional and availability Automated failover for
(AWS) DR Practices
zone separation databases and services

Case Study: Service-Level DR

Runbooks for each GameDays for DR

Amazon's DR Documentation:
service (e.g., EC2,
RDS)
simulation and incident
response testing

Documentation
Process Status Page &
Transparency:
https://status.aws.amaz
Customer-Facing DR
Tools: AWS Backup,
CloudEndure, Route53
Lessons from Amazon
on.com failover routing

Strong internal
Invest in automation Emphasize regular documentation culture
and observability testing of DR plans (internal Wiki, JIRA,
Confluence)
 Key Areas
• GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA
• SLAs with vendors often mandate specific
• Document where and how data is stored and Contractual RTO/RPO thresholds
Data Protection
Laws recovered Obligations

• Record DR tests, incident logs, and response • Maintain version-controlled documentation

Audit Trails
timelines Best (Git, SharePoint)
Practices

• Ensure off-site copies of DR documentation

• The financial industry (e.g., SOX, PCI-DSS) must
report incidents and recovery timelines • Align DR policies with ISO/IEC 22301 –
Regulatory
Reporting: Alignment Business Continuity Management