Giraffe makes use GCP multi-zone redundancy & backups and our core database is backed up daily. Giraffe is currently a single region deployment, spread across multiple zones for disaster recovery purposes.

Target Uptime

• Giraffe Platform target's a 99.9% up time (no more than 4 hours down per year)

User Data Backup Policy

• The core database is backed up on a daily basis
• New: Backup's are now tested for integrity on a monthly basis.

Platform Code Back Up Policy

• The platform code is stored and managed on GitLab. Giraffe leverages all the security and backup protocols available, ensuring that there are no unauthorised accesses to the code base
• Daily offline backups are made of the platform code both for operational and archive purposes

Automated Disaster Recovery

• In the event one of the data centres within the region is compromised, GCP's multi-zone tools will automatically recover from one of the additional regions the deployment is distributed to.

Personnel Responsible

• Chief Information Security Officer- John Asher