- Geography: India
- Industry: Financial Services
- Employees: 5K
- Solution: Cloud
- Services: Cloud Migration
The client
A leading Financial Services / Wealth Management organization operating a mission-critical digital investment platform engaged enreap to modernize its Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy. The platform processes high-value financial transactions and sensitive investor data, making high availability, data integrity, and regulatory compliance non-negotiable. The production environment was hosted entirely on-premises, creating scalability and resilience limitations.
Client requirements
Near-Zero Data Loss
Achieve an aggressive Recovery Point Objective (RPO ≤ 1 minute) for mission-critical financial applications.
Rapid Disaster Recovery
Ensure Recovery Time Objective (RTO ≤ 15 minutes) to minimize business disruption during DR events.
Secure & Compliant DR Architecture
Implement encrypted replication, secure connectivity, audit logging, and compliance-ready disaster recovery processes.
Scalable Cloud-Based Resilience
Modernize the existing on-premises DR strategy with a scalable AWS-based disaster recovery environment.
Operational Simplicity
Reduce infrastructure management overhead through a managed database approach while simplifying DR operations.
Cost-Optimized Business Continuity
Deliver a disaster recovery solution that maintains cost parity or lowers overall DR investment without compromising resilience.
Our approach
enreap designed and implemented a secure On-Premises to AWS Disaster Recovery architecture, leveraging Amazon EC2 for the application tier and Amazon RDS for SQL Server for the database tier. The solution incorporated encrypted replication, controlled DNS failover, real-time monitoring, and structured DR drills to validate recovery objectives and operational readiness.
Our solution
Secure AWS DR Foundation
Established a secure AWS environment with a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) configured with public and private subnets.
Site-to-Site VPN Connectivity
Enabled secure connectivity between the on-premises environment and the AWS Mumbai Region for reliable disaster recovery operations.
Highly Available Application Infrastructure
Deployed the application tier on multi-AZ Amazon EC2 instances to ensure resilience and high availability.
Managed Database & Secure Replication
Implemented Amazon RDS for SQL Server with KMS encryption, SSL/TLS, and SQL Server Log Shipping for secure, low-latency replication.
Controlled Failover & File Synchronization
Used GoodSync for continuous application file synchronization and Cloudflare DNS for controlled traffic redirection during DR events.
Monitoring, Governance & Compliance
Strengthened security and operational visibility through IAM least-privilege access, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, and Amazon S3 for centralized backup and log storage.
Business benefits
- RPO ≤ 1 minute and RTO ≤ 15 minutes achieved during DR drills
- Secure, encrypted replication validated over Site-to-Site VPN
- Reliable database replication with minimal data lag
- Reduced operational overhead using Amazon RDS (managed database)
- Real-time visibility through CloudWatch monitoring and alerts
- DR costs aligned with or lower than existing on-prem investments
Technology stack
