Case Study: a leading global cruise line achieves automated AWS failover and failback in under 15 minutes with Commvault Cloud Rewind

Leading Global Cruise Line achieves failover and failback in under 15 minutes with Commvault

A leading global cruise line needed a robust disaster recovery solution for its business-critical applications on AWS after migrating from on-premises data centers. Their challenge was to achieve rapid, automated failover and failback to an existing VPC in a different region, ensuring application resilience while maintaining connectivity to central datacenter systems. They engaged with Commvault to implement the Commvault Cloud Rewind service to meet these specific requirements.

Commvault implemented its Cloud Rewind solution, which used automated policies and programmable webhooks to back up the entire AWS environment, including DNS configurations. This enabled a single-click recovery operation, achieving a rapid recovery time objective of under 15 minutes for over 2,000 protected resources. The solution successfully allowed the cruise line to perform a fully automated failover, run in the disaster recovery site for 45 days, and then fail back seamlessly, a process that was praised by their lead cloud engineer for its ease and effectiveness.