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High Availability (HA) Planning for Cloud-Native Platforms in Dubai

Your digital platform in Dubai cannot afford downtime. Stralya designs and implements high-availability (HA) architectures that keep your cloud-native applications online, resilient and performant – even when components fail. From RPO/RTO definition to multi-zone failover, we take ownership of the full HA strategy so your business keeps running.
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Service scope

What you get with Stralya’s High Availability (HA) Planning

Stralya’s HA planning service is designed for organisations in Dubai and the GCC that operate high-stakes digital platforms – from real estate marketplaces and financial services to corporate portals and government services. We deliver a complete, actionable HA blueprint and, if required, implement it with our senior engineering team.

Core deliverables

Business and technical assessment of your current availability posture, including incident history and risks.
Definition of availability targets, SLAs, RPO/RTO and prioritised critical user journeys.
Cloud-native HA architecture design on AWS, Azure or GCP with diagrams and component descriptions.
Redundancy, failover and disaster recovery strategy, including backup, restore and testing approach.
Monitoring, alerting and observability recommendations aligned with your operations model.
Cost and complexity analysis of different HA options so you can choose the right balance for your business.
Implementation roadmap with clear phases, responsibilities and risk mitigation measures.

Optional add-ons

End-to-end implementation of the HA architecture using Infrastructure as Code and modern DevOps practices.
Migration of existing workloads into the new HA setup with minimal downtime.
Load testing and chaos testing to validate resilience under stress and failure scenarios.
24/7 or business-hours support model and long-term maintenance SLA tailored to your organisation.
Training and handover sessions for your internal engineering and operations teams in Dubai or remotely.
Every engagement is scoped on a fixed-price basis, giving you full visibility on effort, deliverables and timelines before we start. Our objective is simple: design and deliver an HA strategy that your leadership can trust and your engineering teams can operate with confidence.

Who benefits most from HA planning with Stralya?

Corporate and enterprise platforms
Large organisations and groups in Dubai that rely on web platforms for customer portals, partner ecosystems or internal operations. We help them align HA architecture with governance, compliance and group IT standards.
Startups and scale-ups preparing for growth
Fast-growing companies that expect significant traffic increases – for example in real estate, fintech or e-commerce – and want to avoid outages during peak demand or funding milestones.
Government and semi-government entities
Public and semi-public organisations with critical digital mandates, where service availability is closely tied to citizen trust, regulatory obligations and strategic national programmes.
Organisations with high-stakes digital assets
Any organisation for which downtime directly impacts revenue, legal exposure or brand reputation. We provide the structured processes, documentation and reliability that generic vendors often lack.

How we work

A rigorous, project-first approach to HA planning

Stralya’s HA planning is delivered as a focused, fixed-price engagement. We combine strategic workshops, in-depth technical analysis and hands-on implementation to deliver a concrete, testable architecture – not just a slide deck. Our team works as a partner to your technology leadership, aligning technical decisions with your business priorities in the UAE and wider GCC.

We start with a structured review of your existing infrastructure, application stack, traffic patterns and incident history. In parallel, we run workshops with your stakeholders to identify critical user journeys, regulatory constraints (for example data residency in the UAE), and acceptable downtime. This allows us to define clear availability objectives and prioritise what truly matters.
Based on your business context, we formalise uptime targets, Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO). We then design the overall HA strategy: redundancy model (multi-AZ, multi-region, active-active or active-passive), data replication approach, traffic management, and failure scenarios to be covered. Every choice is documented and costed so you can make informed trade-offs.
Our architects translate the strategy into a detailed cloud-native design on AWS, Azure or GCP. This includes network topology, load balancing, auto-scaling, database and cache redundancy, observability stack, backup and restore strategy, and CI/CD considerations. We provide architecture diagrams, component descriptions, and security considerations aligned with international best practices.
Depending on the engagement scope, we implement the HA architecture using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and modern DevOps practices. We configure monitoring and alerting, set up backups, and run failover and recovery tests to validate that RTO/RPO and SLA objectives can be met. Finally, we deliver clear documentation, runbooks and handover sessions to your team.
High availability must be sustainable. We review cost drivers, propose optimisations (for example right-sizing, storage tiers, auto-scaling policies) and define a roadmap for future improvements. For clients who want long-term support, we can provide ongoing maintenance and evolution under a tailored SLA, ensuring your HA posture keeps pace with your growth.

Popular Questions

Find Commonly Asked Questions

High Availability (HA) planning is the process of designing your systems so they remain accessible and functional even when individual components fail. In Dubai’s fast-moving, digital-first environment, users expect 24/7 access to services – from real estate platforms and e-commerce to government portals. HA planning reduces the risk of outages, protects revenue and reputation, and ensures your digital investments can support ambitious growth targets.
Stralya designs and implements HA architectures on all major cloud providers used in the UAE: AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). We use each platform’s native services – such as multi-AZ deployments, managed databases, load balancers and auto-scaling – to build resilient, cloud-native solutions that align with your organisation’s standards and compliance requirements.
Yes. One of Stralya’s strengths is project rescue. We can step into an existing, unstable environment, assess the root causes of downtime or degraded performance, and design a stabilisation and HA roadmap. This may include immediate quick wins (for example configuration fixes, improved monitoring) followed by a more structured HA redesign and implementation.
The duration depends on the complexity of your platform and the scope of work. For a single web application, a focused HA assessment and architecture design can typically be delivered within 2–4 weeks. If you also require full implementation, testing and documentation, the engagement may extend to several additional weeks. We provide a clear, fixed-price proposal and timeline before starting.
We can do both. Some clients engage Stralya purely for HA strategy and architecture, to be implemented by their internal teams. Others rely on us to handle end-to-end implementation, testing and handover. For mission-critical platforms, we can also define a long-term maintenance and evolution SLA, working as an extension of your engineering team in Dubai.
Every additional level of availability has a cost. Our role is to make those trade-offs explicit. We map your business-critical journeys to specific SLAs, then design HA options with transparent cost implications. We use auto-scaling, right-sizing, storage tiers and managed services to minimise waste, and we propose architectures that deliver the required resilience without unnecessary complexity or spend.

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weeks to stabilise and secure the core platform after takeover.

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critical incidents in production after Stralya’s recovery phase.

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Professional, fast, and ultra-responsive. A company with a top-notch mindset.

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CEO, Growth Hackerz

A company with a true entrepreneurial spirit: fast, professional, and above all, responsive.

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CEO, MandarinMaster

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