Lytho (formerly inMotionNow) streamlines workflow and asset management for creative and marketing teams to enable them to catch and hold audience interest while driving deeper levels of reach and engagement. With massive amounts of content being produced through their platform under stringent deadlines, catastrophically losing content contained in the Lytho system could lead to seismic breakups in both reputation and customer loyalty. Lytho had a process for backups and the ability to rebuild their environment in the event of a disaster, but they felt they needed to go further with the responsiveness of their approach considering the stakes at play.<\/p>\n
Lytho utilizes Microsoft Windows Servers in Amazon EC2 running Microsoft IIS and SQL Server. The servers reside behind elastic load balancers in a VPC, spanning multiple availability zones. Amazon Cognito is used for application user identity and authentication.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe had taken snapshots of our servers and we were doing backups of our database. But bringing it online is one thing, reconnecting it all and having everything in place without significant downtime is another,\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u201cAs we continue to grow we\u2019re concerned about security, stability and resiliency. We knew that we needed something more robust and highly available without having to figure it all out at the moment an event occurs\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014\u00a0 Kevin Conlon, Director of Application Operations for Lytho.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
To test their current disaster recovery process, Joe Sanders, Systems Administrator for Lytho, performed disaster recovery exercises to determine what Lytho\u2019s response time would be. \u201cWe poured over all the backups and our retention policies and we came to the conclusion that if there were a severe outage\u2014like if somehow our Amazon Web Services account was completely wiped\u2014we were talking about a 24-hour timeframe to come back online in the best case scenario,\u201d Joe explained.<\/p>\n
Arpio delivers automated disaster recovery inside AWS<\/b><\/h4>\n
Arpio provided a better disaster recovery process to protect Lytho\u2019s client projects and data. Arpio\u2019s SaaS solution securely connected to Lytho\u2019s AWS environment to enable fully automated cross-region and cross-account recovery. Once connected, Arpio discovered all of the critical AWS resources that needed to be protected for their production workload. Within minutes, the data and infrastructure was backed up in an alternate region and locked down in a separate AWS account. Testing the recovery process happened almost as fast. Within hours of getting started, Lytho had tested and validated that cross-region and cross-account recovery was working for their application.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cTo the credit of Arpio, this was an easy process,\u201d Kevin shared. \u201cIt now seems sort of ridiculous not to do something like this. I\u2019m not even sure how we could have managed replicating some of the services inside of AWS, such as Cognito.<\/h5>\n
There\u2019s a lot of complexities, a lot of interaction within AWS, and using Arpio makes it so that we don\u2019t have to have it all memorized right out of the gate if we decide to try something new. Arpio is constantly growing into other spaces, so they can support us if we want to start using other services.<\/h5>\n
AWS doesn\u2019t stop moving, but now we\u2019re working with someone who has figured out the hard parts and can protect us regardless of the direction we\u2019re heading.\u201d<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Change without fear<\/b><\/h4>\n
\u201cAnother important point is that if we experience turnover, and someone new makes a change not knowing all the nuances of our configuration, it\u2019s no problem if something breaks,\u201d Joe added. \u201cIt\u2019s a safety net where we don\u2019t have to worry about figuring out how to revert everything. We just roll back to the Arpio backup and we\u2019ll do a retrospective on what went wrong and take our time to figure out what needs to happen next.\u201d
\n\u201cThe beauty of this is that if I decide to go to Boca Raton and something explodes, there\u2019s a system in place that takes some of the human element out of having to get it all back together again,\u201d Kevin explained. \u201cIt\u2019s sort of set and forget. We know the system is in place. We know it\u2019s running. We\u2019ve run through the tests. It replicates what we have right now and we can make decisions against that or take snapshots at points in time where we could change back to any point.\u201d<\/p>\nRestoration in minutes<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\n\u201cGoing back to that 24-hour time-to-restore that we had estimated previously,\u201d Joe added. \u201c It\u2019s far different from the mere minutes that it takes now with Arpio.<\/h5>\n
Knowing that there would only be a 5 minute changeover to get everybody back online before they realize there is a problem is much, much better than having to tell every single client that they need to push their deadlines back for a week.<\/h5>\n
That alone makes this approach more than worth the investment.\u201d<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Support at the speed of AWS<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Lytho plans on adding ECS as part of their future architecture, a feature recently added by Arpio. \u201cIt\u2019s great knowing that when we\u2019re ready, all we need to do is flip a switch and magically everything will be backed up right to that point,\u201d said Kevin. \u201cIt\u2019s a fantastic way to ensure the stability of our future growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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