The Cevo 4R (Resilience Readiness Review and Remediation) assessment leverages the reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework to provide a consistent and repeatable way to assess all aspects of a workload’s operations, with a focus on people, process and technology.

Resiliently-architected workloads are designed to flex and react to operational events that are likely to impact availability and performance of customer services. In modern systems, much of this reaction is automated to ensure customer impacts are minimised.

This assessment explores the architecture of your workload, in addition to the operational tooling and processes, with a focus on validating how the workloads are designed and implemented to achieve the required recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO). This provides a view of the resilience of existing systems and how a multi-region strategy can increase availability, resiliency and performance in AWS.

For more details on the principles within the AWS Well Architected Framework see Are You Well Architected? - Cevo.

Process

Cevo consultants work alongside your development and operations teams to review the current state of the workload, and build a backlog of work to implement improvements.

A Cevo Resilience Readiness Review is delivered across 2-3 weeks, and is composed of the following activities:

• Onsite or remote workshops covering:
  • Workload Well-Architected Review
  • Deep-dive resilience review, including:
    • Review of workload architecture
    • Review of disaster recovery process documentation
    • Review of operational process and team capability
    • Review of deployment and operational tooling
• Onsite or remote information sessions covering:
  • Introduction to high availability and disaster recovery concepts and scenarios
  • Review of industry standard architectures and techniques to achieve high availability and disaster recovery
  • Technology demonstrations of high availability and disaster recovery solutions (as required)
  • Review and validation of the current state of the workload’s non-functional requirements relating to recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO)

Further to the Resilience Readiness Review, Cevo also has skilled team members to assist you with the development and deployment of the items identified in the backlog.

Outputs

By the end of the engagement, you will receive:

• Resilience Review report highlighting the current state of the workload
• Improvement backlog containing recommended remediation activities, effort sizing and sequencing
• Team briefing on the workload’s current state and improvement list