INTERFACE Portland
March 19th, 2026

  Presented by Seth Eliot, Principal Resilience Architect • Arpio

You've backed up your data. You've secured your application code and infrastructure as code. You've documented runbooks. But when Google accidentally deleted a customer's entire cloud environment for a week, or when Change Healthcare's partners refused connectivity for 90 days after a breach, backups alone weren't enough. The real objective is to recover quickly and completely—data, infrastructure, networking, configuration, and security principles—all together.

In this talk, you'll learn the requirements for fast, reliable recovery, including cross-region and cross-account isolation, complete workload recovery, and testability. We'll walk through the design decisions you need to make and how you can implement them using cloud native tools. All while applying best practices to reduce toil and test your DR strategy safely and frequently.