Sutter Case Study
Sutter
Business continuity and disaster recovery architecture enabling high availability, data protection, and seamless failover across regions.
Project Overview
Designed and implemented a business continuity and disaster recovery solution to ensure application availability and data protection during regional outages. The architecture enables seamless failover between regions with minimal downtime and near-zero data loss.
Industry
Context and Challenges
Client Requirements
RTO within minutes
RPO within minutes
Multi-region deployment capability
Automated failover and recovery
Secure and isolated infrastructure
CI/CD-based deployments
My Role
Architected and implemented an Active-Passive disaster recovery solution on Azure, ensuring seamless failover, secure infrastructure, and highly available application delivery across regions.
Strategy and Solution
Designed Active-Passive architecture across two regions
Configured Azure Front Door for global traffic routing
Deployed identical applications in primary and secondary regions
Implemented autoscaling policies for failover scenarios
Enabled CI/CD pipelines for synchronized deployments
Architecture Highlights
Architecture
Active-Passive disaster recovery architecture with Azure Front Door routing traffic between primary and standby regions.
Technologies and Tools
Cloud Platform
- Microsoft Azure
- Azure App Services
- Azure Container Apps
Networking & Routing
- Azure Front Door
- Azure DNS
- Azure Virtual Network
Security
- Azure Key Vault
- Azure WAF (Application Gateway)
- Azure Active Directory
DevOps
- Azure DevOps CI/CD
- Container Registry
Data & Storage
- Azure SQL Database
- Blob Storage
- Redis Cache
Highlights
Outcome
Benefits
Business
Continuous service availability
Improved customer trust
Reduced revenue loss during outages
Technical & Security
Automated disaster recovery
Secure infrastructure with centralized controls
Highly resilient cloud architecture