My small startup is submitting an RFP response to a large organization that requires we have a disaster recovery plan. I've Googled around a bit and haven't found anything that seems like a good example. I'm curious how the HN crowd deals with this sort of thing.<p>Any input is appreciated!
DR plans are a critical business component for larger companies to do business with you, it is a checkbox type item they must check off. Essentially they are looking to know that the business has planned for disasters and have a written methodology to manage & mitigate it. You can find DR plans online to use for a template, the key things you need to answer is where are there single points of failure in your system and how do you mitigate them. And then where you have redundancy how does it give you the ability to recover from or mitigate a disaster.<p>The DR plan doesn't have to be crazy complicated or long, but companies know there are deficiencies in your solution (they have them in their own), what they are wanting to be able to check is that you recognize the deficiencies and that you have thought about how to protect their data and their access to the system.
I always wondered if larger orgs have options to fallback to other cloud providers? If AWS goes down, or part of AWS, are there automatic fallbacks to azure for example?