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Disaster Recovery Exercise

Overview​

Purpose​

The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the disaster recovery exercise conducted on:

2nd June 2026

The exercise aimed to test the effectiveness and readiness of our disaster recovery plan, ensuring that the Skpr hosting platform can recover from a simulated disaster scenario.

Scope​

This exercise is focused on the infrastructure that supports customer applications.

While this exercise is typically executed as part of a larger customer engagement, this document only outlines the infrastructure steps taken.

Objectives​

  • Validate the effectiveness of the disaster recovery plan.
  • Validate the effectiveness of the infrastructure provisioning tooling.
  • Identify any gaps or bugs in the recovery procedures and tooling.

Steps Taken​

Mock Scenario

The Skpr platform team determines the security of the platform has been compromised. It was deemed that a new cluster needed to be provisioned for security purposes.

Steps Taken by Team

  • A new AWS account is setup
  • A Skpr platform instance is provisioned on the new AWS account using the Platform Teams Terraform manifests
  • All Skpr platform components are tested to ensure they are ready for developer interaction
  • Test sites are then deployed onto the new cluster (with application content synced)

Platform Components Validated​

The following APIs and associated workflows were validated:

  • Release
  • Environment
  • Config
  • Backup
  • Restore
  • Exec/Shell