STORE. PROTECT. PROVE.

Store the data. Protect the systems. Prove recovery works.

KineticSkunk helps trust-sensitive organisations move beyond configured backups to AWS recovery that is governed, tested, visible and ready for scrutiny.

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10 questions · Approximately 3 minutes · No AWS access required

  1. Store

    Govern what matters

  2. Protect

    Validate recovery

  3. Prove

    Make evidence visible

THE MOMENT EVERYTHING GETS REAL

Everything changes when someone asks for proof.

A customer, auditor, board member or investor asks for recovery documentation, successful restore evidence and actual recovery performance. Someone answers, "We have backups."

Then comes the question that reframes everything: "Can you prove they work?"

  • Enterprise onboarding

  • Audit or regulatory scrutiny

  • Board or customer assurance

  • Incident or failed restore

Having backups is not the same as having recoverability.

THE PROOF GAP

Recovery confidence cannot be built on assumptions.

The gap often remains invisible while systems are running. It appears when recovery must be demonstrated under time pressure or external scrutiny.

  • Restore testing is inconsistent

  • RTO and RPO remain unvalidated

  • Evidence is assembled manually

  • Monitoring is fragmented

  • Recovery ownership is unclear

These are not necessarily backup failures. They are proof failures.

THE MODEL

Move from configured backups to provable recovery.

  1. Store

    Define what matters and govern how it is protected and retained.

    Outcome

    Critical workloads, policies, retention and ownership are clear.

  2. Protect

    Test whether representative workloads can actually be recovered.

    Outcome

    Recovery expectations are validated rather than assumed.

  3. Prove

    Make recovery evidence visible, repeatable and usable.

    Outcome

    Teams can respond confidently to customers, auditors and incidents.

WHAT CHANGES

Build recovery confidence into daily operations.

KineticSkunk applies the model inside your AWS environment through a focused 2-to-4-week engagement.

  • Governed backup foundation

    Protection policies, retention, workload scope and ownership aligned to business priorities.

  • Tested recovery and evidence

    Representative restores, observed results and practical evidence that recovery has been validated.

  • Operational visibility

    Monitoring, dashboards and alerts that make backup and restore activity visible.

  • Runbooks and ownership

    Clear recovery steps, evidence locations, responsibilities and team handover.

  1. Discover

  2. Establish

  3. Validate

  4. Hand over

Focused, practical and deployed inside your AWS account.

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ASSESS YOUR READINESS

Where is your recovery proof gap?

Answer 10 questions to evaluate backup governance, restore testing, recovery evidence, visibility and operational ownership.

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Approximately 3 minutes · No AWS access required · Immediate result

The assessment covers five areas: governance, restore testing, recovery evidence, visibility and ownership.

PREFER TO START WITH THE STORY?

Understand why recovery gaps stay hidden.

Read Prove It or Lose It to see how customer, audit, board and incident pressure exposes the difference between having backups and proving recoverability.

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READY TO CLOSE THE GAP?

Turn recovery assumptions into evidence.

Speak to KineticSkunk about your recovery priorities, current AWS environment and the evidence your stakeholders need.

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