Agent skill · operations · jeremylongshore
planning-disaster-recovery
Execute use when you need to work with backup and recovery.
Why this skill is useful
Adds executable scripts for automated failover and Terraform modules for standby infrastructure that extend the AI's capabilities in disaster recovery planning.
What it needs
Requires aws, terraform installed locally. Requires aws account access. About 3k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 2,604 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Planning Disaster Recovery Overview Design disaster recovery (DR) plans for cloud infrastructure covering RTO/RPO requirements, multi-region failover, data replication, and automated recovery procedures. Generate runbooks, Terraform for standby infrastructure, and automated failover scripts for databases, compute, and networking. Prerequisites Complete inventory of production infrastructure components and dependencies Defined RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) per service tier Cloud provider CLI authenticated with permissions for multi-region resource management Cross-region networking configured (VPC peering, Transit Gateway, or VPN) Backup and replication mechanisms already in place or planned Instructions 1. Catalog all production services with their criticality tier (Tier 1: < 15 min RTO, Tier 2: < 1 hour, Tier 3: < 24 hours) 2. Map dependencies between services to identify single points of failure and cascading failure paths 3. Design the DR strategy per tier: active-active for Tier 1, pilot light or warm standby for Tier 2, backup-restore for Tier 3 4. Generate Terraform for standby region infrastructure: VPC, subnets, security groups, and scaled-down compute 5. Configure database replication: RDS cross-region read replicas, DynamoDB global tables, or Cloud SQL cross-region replicas 6. Set up DNS failover using Route 53 health checks, Cloud DNS routing policies, or global load balancers 7. Create automated failover scripts: promote read replica to primary, update DNS records, scale up standby compute 8. Document the DR runbook with step-by-step procedures, responsible parties, and communication plans 9. Schedule quarterly DR drills: simulate region failure, execute the runbook, measure actual RTO/RPO, and document gaps 10. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills jeremylongshore/planning-disaster-recovery