The Pressure on Architects

Solution architects are regularly asked to sign off on resilience architecture — but without a structured, evidence-based assessment, those sign-offs are opinions, not findings. When a major incident or compliance audit arrives, architects need documented, scored posture against agreed recovery targets rather than architecture diagrams that may no longer reflect reality.

What Haylix ASSESS Covers

The Disaster Recovery & High Availability assessment pillar maps your deployed workloads against industry-standard resilience dimensions:

• Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) — are your recovery procedures tested and timed?
• Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) — are backup frequencies aligned with RPO commitments?
• Failover coverage — are critical services deployed across availability zones or regions?
• Dependency mapping — are single points of failure identified and documented?
• Runbook completeness — do recovery runbooks exist, are they tested, and are they accessible during an outage?
• DR test cadence — when was the last full failover test conducted, and what were the outcomes?

Architecture-Grade Output

Haylix ASSESS produces findings that architects can bring directly into design reviews:

• A scored gap analysis against each RTO/RPO commitment by workload
• A dependency map highlighting undocumented single points of failure
• A prioritised remediation list ranked by recovery risk, not just control category
• Evidence artefacts suitable for ITSM, risk register, or architecture governance boards

From Assessment to Design Decision

Architects use the findings to drive three types of decisions:

1. Immediate remediation — gaps with high business impact that require urgent engineering attention
2. Architecture uplift — structural weaknesses that require design changes in the next release cycle
3. Risk acceptance — findings that are acknowledged and formally deferred, with documented rationale

Haylix ASSESS supports all three paths, including the ability to mark findings as accepted risks with owner attribution and review dates.

Integrating with Architecture Review Boards

The platform exports findings in formats suitable for architecture review boards (ARBs) and change advisory boards (CABs), giving architects a clear line from assessment evidence to design decision. This removes the need to manually prepare separate DR documentation ahead of governance reviews.

Architects who use Haylix ASSESS consistently report that design reviews move faster when resilience posture is pre-documented with scored evidence rather than prepared from memory or from stale documentation.