The Traditional Recovery Problem
Traditional backup solutions store data in cold or archive storage tiers to reduce costs. When you need to recover, you must first "rehydrate" the data—a process that can take 12-48 hours or longer. During a critical outage, this delay is unacceptable.
How Instant Recovery Works
Air Gap Recover stores all backup data in hot storage—always ready for immediate access. There's no rehydration period, no delay, and no compromises. When disaster strikes, you can initiate recovery operations immediately and have your systems back online in minutes.
Technical Architecture
- S3 Standard Tier - All data stored in hot, instantly-accessible storage
- Parallel Recovery - Recover multiple resources simultaneously for faster RTO
- Direct EC2 Launch - Boot recovered instances directly from snapshots
- Incremental Restores - Only copy changed data to minimize recovery time
- Point-in-Time Recovery - Choose any snapshot from your retention window
Recovery Scenarios
Full Environment Recovery
Recover your entire production environment including EC2 instances, RDS databases, EFS file systems, and S3 buckets. Air Gap Recover orchestrates the recovery process, maintaining proper dependency ordering and network configurations.
Granular File Recovery
Need to recover a single file or database table? Air Gap Recover supports granular recovery without restoring entire volumes. Mount EBS snapshots as volumes, browse the file system, and extract only what you need.
Cross-Region Failover
Combined with our Cross-Region Replication feature, you can fail over to a different AWS region in minutes. All data is already replicated and ready for immediate recovery—no waiting for data transfers.
Performance Benchmarks
Real-world recovery performance from Air Gap Recover customers:
- EC2 Instance - 2-5 minutes from snapshot to running instance
- RDS Database (1TB) - 8-12 minutes to operational database
- EFS File System (10TB) - 15-20 minutes for full restore
- S3 Bucket (100TB) - Concurrent object recovery at 10GB/s+