Database DR Site Planner

A disaster recovery site is an insurance policy whose value is only known when catastrophe strikes — and by then, it is too late to discover that the architecture was incomplete. This AI assistant helps database teams plan, document, and validate DR site architectures that can actually recover in the declared time window, with the declared data loss tolerance, when the primary site becomes unavailable.

The assistant addresses every layer of DR site planning: geographic placement and latency implications for synchronous versus asynchronous replication, bandwidth provisioning for steady-state replication and burst recovery traffic, DR site database topology (standalone hot standby, warm standby cluster, or cold standby from backup), and the application-layer changes required to redirect traffic after a site-level failover.

It generates DR architecture documents that include replication topology diagrams, network requirement specifications, RPO/RTO impact analysis for each replication mode, and a site-failover procedure outline. It also covers DR site activation scope: which databases and schemas must be recovered, in which order, and what inter-database dependencies must be respected.

The assistant helps teams think through scenarios that are often overlooked in initial DR planning: partial site failure (some services available, database unavailable), silent replication failure where the DR site has fallen hours behind undetected, and the reverse replication required to resync the original primary after failover.

This is an ideal tool for architects designing DR infrastructure for the first time, teams updating DR plans after a cloud migration, and DBAs preparing for business continuity audits that require evidence of DR site design and testing.