Introduction:
TextileGenesis™ is a global SaaS platform transforming textile traceability—tracking materials from fiber to retail across 5–6 tiers of the supply chain. Serving premium fashion brands worldwide, their platform operates 24×7 across time zones, where even minutes of downtime can break visibility, disrupt trust, and impact compliance.
Client:
TextileGenesis
Industry:
SaaS / Fashion & Apparel Supply Chain
Offering:
Pilot Light Disaster Recovery (Cross-Region)
AWS Services:
- AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS)
- Amazon EC2 + EBS
- AWS CloudFormation
- Application Load Balancer (ALB)
- AWS WAF + Lambda
- Amazon VPC + Peering
- AWS KMS
- Amazon CloudWatch + SNS
The Challenge:
For TextileGenesis, resilience wasn’t optional – it was foundational.
But the challenge wasn’t just uptime. It was balancing resilience, cost, and compliance:
- The Cost vs Continuity Tradeoff: They needed a robust cross-region DR setup (Stockholm → N. Virginia) without paying for always-on duplicate infrastructure.
- Global Availability Pressure: A platform serving global supply chains cannot afford disruptions – downtime directly impacts brand trust and traceability commitments.
- Compliance & Audit Readiness: With PCI DSS and AWS Foundational requirements, every DR drill needed documented proof, not just assumptions.
- Tight Recovery Expectations:
Target:
- RTO: 30 minutes
- RPO: 2 hours
And these weren’t “nice-to-have” numbers – they were business-critical SLAs.
Solution Approach:
Rapyder designed a Pilot Light DR Strategy powered by AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) – a model built for speed without waste.
Instead of running a full DR environment 24×7, the setup keeps infrastructure minimal and activates full capacity only when needed.
Implementation:
Rapyder streamlined the DR lifecycle through a “Dark Site” architecture that springs to life on demand:
- Continuous block-level replication enabled via AWS DRS between primary and DR regions.
- DR environment provisioned on-demand using CloudFormation, eliminating manual setup.
- No idle compute in DR, ensuring cost efficiency with minimal staging resources.
- MongoDB Atlas connectivity pre-established for instant database access during failover.
- Real-time monitoring and alerting via CloudWatch integrated with 24×7 NOC.
Implementation:
Rapyder executed a layered technical migration to ensure a “One-Click” failover:
- Infrastructure: Provisioned 15 EC2 instances via CloudFormation; configured EKS to scale dynamically from 1 to 8 nodes upon failover.
- Data Integrity: Deployed Cross-Region Read Replicas (RDS) and native replication (MongoDB) to ensure real-time synchronization and zero data loss.
- Automation: Integrated AWS Lambda for cost-optimized start/stop scheduling and S3/ECR Cross-Region Replication for instant application availability.
- Security: Enforced KMS Customer Managed Keys (CMKs) for multi-region encryption across all EBS, RDS, and S3 volumes.
- Command & Control: Established CloudWatch-to-SNS alerting routed to Rapyder’s 24/7 Cloud Command Centre for proactive incident response.
The Business Impact: Impact Engineered by Rapyder
- Achieved 30-minute RTO, ensuring rapid recovery during regional outages.
- Achieved 50-minute RPO, significantly better than the 2-hour target.
- Eliminated idle DR infrastructure costs with a Pilot Light architecture.
- Ensured audit-ready compliance with documented DR drills and evidence.
- Enabled seamless failover and failback with zero manual intervention.
Why Choose Rapyder?
- BFSI Domain Expertise: Deep mastery of the rigorous compliance standards of SEBI and AMFI.
- AWS Premier Partner: Proven track record in complex cross-region orchestration and IaC-driven resilience.
- Outcome-Obsessed: We don’t just build infrastructure; we own the drill, the documentation, and the recovery success.
