Less than 24 hour recovery time for multi-region production
FinalSite is an easier way to market your schools, manage communications and enrollment, and strengthen your online presence.
OPPORTUNITY
Finalsite went from limited single-zone to full cross-region resiliency
Kickdrum de-risked the business from extended downtimes by establishing recovery points for all components and optimizing recovery times via comprehensive infrastructure automation.
RESULTS
Achieving same and cross-region backup with AWS
Kickdrum implemented policies and rules to backup S3, EBS, Aurora RDS clusters, and EC2 instances to reduce Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) in the case of regional failures or other outages.
Infrastructure-as-code (IAC) for a multi-region production cluster
Kickdrum brought Finalsite’s massive fleet of 1,200+ EC2 instances and other supporting infrastructure to Terraform, unlocking the ability to spin up completely new environments from scratch in less than 24 hours.
Spinning up working disaster recovery (DR) environments
Kickdrum delivered a new DR site and runbooks for setting up a brand new environment for critical applications, along with high quality documentation for managing releases and extensions to production.
“Thank you, Kickdrum, for saving the business and also bringing great improvements to the team. It’s great to see when contractors build a deep relationship with the team…it’s a real pleasure”
- FinalSite Executive VP of Global Engineering
