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Disaster recovery testing scenarios

Disaster Recovery (DR) is the ability of software and/or services to handle extreme scenarios. For example, the failure of the software itself or a datacenter outage.

Aiven provides this service to any Enterprise Support customers and can run these scenarios at your request up to 4 times per year.

Disaster Recovery scenario

This is a preset scenario where an Aiven specialist will simulate an issue with your service and sabotage one (or more) of your Virtual Machines. For example, with an Aiven for PostgreSQL® service, we can sabotage the Primary instance and test the failover functionality or we can sabotage both nodes to test recovery time for a complete outage.

Requirements

  1. At least 7 working days notice and the time (plus timezone) that you would like this carried out.
  2. A throwaway service created specifically for this scenario and not a service used in Production.
  3. The virtual machine and/or the availability zone that you would like to target.
  4. An Enterprise Support contract.

Requesting a disaster recovery test

You can request a test by contacting the support team or by contacting your Customer Success Manager.

The process looks as follows:

  • All communication during the exercise will occur in the support ticket.
  • Aiven contacts you to confirm the start date and content of the scenario.
  • You confirm the scenario and its start date.
  • Actions taken on the service and/or virtual machines will be communicated through the support ticket.