Recovery is the plan teams count on and rarely rehearse until an incident forces it. In a 2026 survey of 583 cloud IT leaders, 92% were confident they could restore critical data during an incident, but most needed 6+ hours to complete a full restore. A lot of that traces back to recovery built on full-snapshot rollbacks. Those get slow at a multi-region scale, and they don't help much when the cause is a bad deploy or a runaway job.

SoFi runs regulated workloads across five AWS regions. The team swapped its snapshot-heavy process for granular recovery built with Eon and AWS, and stood it up in under four weeks with no agents to run. Restores that took a full day now finish in minutes, precise enough to restore a single row or file without touching anything around it. The savings covered the platform's cost in year one.

Shannon Bradley, Manager of DevOps Engineering at SoFi walks through how SoFi built it and the patterns that keep recovery working across regions.

Key Takeaways:

• Why full-snapshot recovery sets a ceiling on speed at multi-region scale, and what changes when you can restore a single row or file instead.

• How to give engineers self-service restore without weakening the retention and audit controls a regulated environment runs on.

• How SoFi cut recovery from a day to minutes in under four weeks, with no agents to deploy.