AI-powered marketing platform with Amazon RDS cross-region disaster recovery
AgentMethods is a SaaS platform that helps insurance agencies build and grow their online presence through digital marketing and website solutions. As the platform expanded, protecting production data became increasingly important to ensure uninterrupted business operations and meet disaster recovery expectations. The production database relied on Amazon RDS automated snapshots, but all backups remained within the same AWS region, creating a potential single point of failure during regional outages or unexpected data loss events.
Mallow designed and implemented a cross-region disaster recovery solution on AWS to strengthen data resilience and business continuity. By enabling automated Amazon RDS snapshot replication, secure cross-region encryption, and a clearly defined recovery process, we helped AgentMethods build a reliable disaster recovery architecture that safeguards critical business data while simplifying recovery during unforeseen events.
2025 – ongoing
Web application
Marketing technology
Key challenges and how we solved them
What was the client’s key challenge
AgentMethods stored all Amazon RDS automated backups in the same AWS region as its production database. This created a single point of failure, where a regional outage or backup loss could leave the business without a recoverable copy of its critical data.
The company needed a resilient disaster recovery solution that protected backups outside the primary region while providing a secure, reliable, and repeatable recovery process to support business continuity.
Disaster recovery readiness
100%
Automated database snapshots are securely replicated to a dedicated disaster recovery region, ensuring recoverable backups remain available outside the primary AWS region.
What was our approach
Rather than adding another disaster recovery environment that would continuously consume infrastructure resources, we evaluated the available AWS disaster recovery strategies and selected a backup and restore approach that aligned with the client’s recovery objectives and budget.
Using native AWS capabilities, we implemented automated cross-region replication for Amazon RDS backups, ensuring production snapshots were securely copied to an independent disaster recovery region without relying on custom scripts or third-party tools. We also established secure access controls, backup retention policies, and a documented recovery process so the database could be restored quickly and consistently whenever required.
Key functionalities delivered in the project
01
Cross-region automated backup replication
Configured Amazon RDS automated backup replication to continuously replicate production database snapshots to a dedicated disaster recovery region without manual intervention.
02
Secure cross-region encryption
Protected replicated snapshots using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), ensuring encrypted database backups remain secure across both AWS regions.
03
Disaster recovery architecture
Designed a backup and restore disaster recovery strategy that provides an independent recovery environment while eliminating the need for continuously running disaster recovery infrastructure.
04
Least privilege access management
Implemented AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to restrict replication configuration, snapshot management, and database restoration to authorized roles following least privilege principles.
05
Documented recovery process
Established a clear and repeatable database restoration workflow, enabling recovery from the latest replicated snapshot during regional disruptions or disaster scenarios.
06
Business continuity readiness
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What impact did team Mallow deliver?
- Eliminated single region backup dependency for production databases.
- Established a repeatable disaster recovery process with documented restoration procedures.
- Improved business continuity by maintaining recoverable database copies outside the primary AWS region.
- Reduced recovery risk through automated snapshot replication with no manual intervention.
- Protected backup data using AWS-managed encryption across both regions.
- Strengthened audit and compliance readiness with a resilient disaster recovery strategy.
- Delivered regional resilience without maintaining continuously running disaster recovery infrastructure.
- Built a scalable foundation that can evolve to advanced disaster recovery architectures as future business requirements grow.
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