Disaster Recovery, Orchestrated

Calm execution when it counts.

Turn complex recovery procedures into controlled, repeatable operations. Sully coordinates infrastructure recovery, validates every step, keeps operators in control, and captures the evidence automatically.

See How It Works

Runbook-driven · Human-approved · Audit-ready

Recovery sequence · regional-failover
In sequence

  • Standby

    running

    Plan loaded · regional-failover

  • Validate

    queued

    Database replication in sync

  • Approval

    queued

    DNS cutover · operator confirmed

  • Failover

    queued

    Traffic moving to DR region

  • Verify

    queued

    Service health checks passed

  • Stable

    queued

    Touchdown · evidence captured

RTO target
30m
Elapsed
—
Approvals
0

Why Sully

Recovery you can trust, before you need it

Execute with control

Explicit gates stop the sequence before critical actions, so nothing irreversible happens without a decision.

Recover repeatably

Manual procedures become tested operational sequences that run the same way every time, under pressure.

Know what happened

Timings, approvals, checks and outcomes are captured automatically as evidence you can hand to anyone.

Drill before it matters

Rehearse the full recovery safely, prove your targets, and find the gaps long before the real incident.

Humans stay in command

Automation without surrendering control

Sully never blindly runs destructive workflows. Critical operations stop at deliberate approval gates, surface the context and pre-flight evidence behind the decision, and continue only once an operator confirms intent.

Every approval is attributed and recorded — so the decision trail is as clear as the execution itself.

Approval gate

step 3 of 6

DNS cutover ready

Estimated impact: production traffic moves to the DR region.

Pre-flight checks8 / 8 passed
  • Replication lag within threshold
  • DR region capacity reserved
  • Baseline DNS records captured
  • Rollback path verified

How it works

Your recovery plan becomes an executable operation

regional-failover.yamlvalid
name: regional-failover
service: payments
rto: 30m

steps:
  - validate: database_replication
  - approve: dns_cutover
  - execute: failover
  - verify: service_health
  1. 01

    Draft plan

    regional-failover · payments

  2. 02

    Calibration

    targets and pre-flight checks

  3. 03

    Initiate sequence

    validated, ordered execution

  4. 04

    Touchdown

    stable state · evidence captured

Declarative, reviewable, versioned — and the same plan you drill with is the one you recover with.

Interactive

Preview a recovery plan

Adjust the calibration and watch the plan and its operational readout change — before anything runs.

Simulated mode runs the disaster recovery sequence as a non-destructive drill, prompt_each_step holds critical steps such as DNS cutover and failover at an approval gate until an operator confirms intent, and auto_rollback_on_failure unwinds completed steps in reverse order when an anomaly is detected. The sample sequence validates replication, checks DR capacity, confirms DNS cutover, executes failover, verifies application health, and captures recovery evidence.

Drill only — no destructive actions are executed.

Stop for Confirm intent before each critical step.

Unwind completed steps automatically on an anomaly.

regional-failover.yamldrill
name: regional-failover
service: payments
rto: 30m
metadata:
  mode: simulated
settings:
  prompt_each_step: true
  auto_rollback_on_failure: false
NON-DESTRUCTIVE DRILLGATED · CONFIRM INTENTROLLBACK MANUAL
  1. 01Validate replicationSIMULATED
  2. 02Check DR capacitySIMULATED
  3. APPROVAL GATE · CONFIRM INTENT
    03Confirm DNS cutoverSIMULATED
  4. APPROVAL GATE · CONFIRM INTENT
    04Execute failoverSIMULATED
  5. 05Verify application healthSIMULATED
  6. 06Capture recovery evidenceSIMULATED

Drill-only: every step runs non-destructively and reports the same evidence as a live sequence.

Critical steps hold at an approval gate until an operator confirms intent.

Rollback manual — on an anomaly the sequence halts and waits for an operator decision.

Platform

Everything a recovery operation needs

DR orchestration

Coordinate recovery steps across environments in a deliberate, validated order.

Approval gates

Pause on critical actions until an operator confirms intent with full context.

Dry-run drills

Rehearse the entire sequence with zero blast radius, as often as you need.

Automated rollback

Compensation actions unwind completed steps the moment an anomaly appears.

RTO/RPO evidence

Measured recovery times against declared targets on every run — drill or real.

Execution history

A durable, audit-ready record of what ran, who approved it, and what it proved.

Integrations

Coordinate recovery across the systems you already run

Provider-extensible by design, so new clouds, clusters and data layers slot into the same sequence and the same evidence trail.

OCI

Oracle Cloud

Full Stack DR, DNS, compute

AWS

AWS

Route 53, EC2, RDS

CF

Cloudflare

DNS baseline & cutover

K8s

Kubernetes

Cluster & workload health

DB

MongoDB

Replication validation

Execution evidence

Proof, not recollection

Every run produces a complete record: what executed, how long it took, who approved what, and whether targets were met. Post-incident reviews, audits and board reporting all read from the same source.

Run report · regional-failoverTouchdown
Status
Stable
RTO target
30m
Actual recovery
18m 42s
Critical checks
Passed
Approvals
2
Evidence captured
14 events
Rollback
Not required
Mode
Drill