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Author: Nishanth Charlakola
Nishanth Charlakola is a Director at S&P Global Market Intelligence in the Data Services Engineering group, with over 16 years of SQL Server experience and 7 years in cloud infrastructure. He leads SQL Server workloads migration to the cloud at S&P Global MI. Based in Hyderabad, India, and supports Chelsea FC.
S&P Global’s innovative disaster recovery strategy using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP snapshots
In this post, we explain how S&P Global Market Intelligence implemented an innovative disaster recovery solution for their Capital IQ platform using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. This solution enables immediate failover to read-only mode in a secondary region within 15 minutes, followed by full read-write recovery when needed. This approach achieves reduction in failover time while maintaining data consistency for global financial operations.