Keep running when a site goes down
Gewape Cloud regions are independent of each other. Run production in one region and your standby in another, and recover from backups you control. Where a country has two of our regions, your recovery site stays in the same country.
What you get
- A recovery region in the same country
- Recovery you can test and show evidence of
- Backups that stay in the region you choose
Context
The challenge
A disaster recovery plan that lives in a document does not restart a payment system. Regulators and boards now ask to see recovery tested, not promised.
Recovering abroad brings its own problem: your data leaves the country exactly when you are under the most scrutiny.
Our approach
How Gewape Cloud Infrastructure addresses it
Each Gewape Cloud region is independent: its own servers, storage and network. You choose the region for every resource in the Gewape Cloud Platform, so you can keep production in one region and a standby in another, protect volumes and servers with backups, and move traffic with DNS when you need to.
Products used
Built from these products
Cloud Servers
Production servers in one region and a standby in another.
Gewape Cloud Backup
Locked backups of servers and volumes to restore from.
Block Storage
Snapshots and volumes you can restore as new volumes.
DNS
Point your domain at the region that is serving.
Load Balancer
Spread traffic across healthy servers in a region.
How it works
Step by step
- 1
Pick two regions
Choose your production region and your recovery region in the Gewape Cloud Platform header.
- 2
Protect your data
Back up servers and volumes on a schedule, with every copy locked for 30 days.
- 3
Build the standby
Create the servers, networks and load balancer your service needs in the recovery region.
- 4
Test the switch
Restore into the recovery region, point DNS at it, and record how long it took. Repeat on a schedule.
Why Gewape Cloud Infrastructure
Accountable in every market we serve
We operate it ourselves
The platform is run and supported by our own team, not resold from another provider.
Your region, by your choice
Run in the live region you choose, or in a private cloud we deliver in your country. Your data stays where you put it.
A local company to contract with
You contract with a Gewape Cloud company in your own country where we have one: Rwanda, Kenya, South Africa, Singapore or the United States. Registered as a data controller and data processor with the data protection authorities in Kenya and Rwanda.
A payments company runs production across two Gewape Cloud regions today.
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
Are the regions really separate?
Yes. Each region is separate, each with its own servers, storage and network. You choose the region for every resource.
Do my backups leave the country?
No. Backups stay in the region you select in the Gewape Cloud Platform.
Can you help us design and test the plan?
Yes. Talk to our team and we will scope the recovery design with you.
A second region to recover in, and backups to recover from.
Start on the Gewape Cloud Platform today, or speak with our team about your requirements.