Finance & Banking

Your Kafka clusters hold billions in transactions. Can you recover them in 30 minutes?

Financial institutions running Apache Kafka for real-time payments, fraud detection, and regulatory reporting face a hidden risk: their internal backup solutions are too slow, too manual, and too fragile to meet DORA and MiFID II recovery requirements.

The risks you're living with right now

→Internal script-based backups take 8+ hours to restore multi-terabyte clusters

→Replication protects against hardware failure — not accidental deletion or ransomware

→DORA mandates tested, documented recovery within hours — not days

→A single failed recovery test can trigger regulatory scrutiny and client penalties

The Solution

Purpose-built Kafka backup that meets DORA on day one

Kannika Armory continuously backs up every Kafka topic, schema, and offset to immutable, decoupled object storage. Recovery is self-service, point-in-time, and tested — not a manual process that depends on one specialist.

8h → 30m

Recovery Time

From overnight scripts to self-service point-in-time restore in under 30 minutes.

80%

Storage Reduction

Immutable object storage with deduplication cuts your backup footprint by 80%.

100%

DORA Compliant

Tested, documented, and auditable recovery meeting DORA and MiFID II requirements.

~0s

RPO

Every topic, schema, and offset captured continuously — no data gap between backups.

Real Customer Story

How a finance & banking company solved this

The Situation

The CTO at a major financial trade repository was responsible for guaranteeing the integrity and availability of their regulatory reporting pipeline.

The Challenge

Their existing internal backup solution — built on scripts and snapshots — could not restore their multi-terabyte Kafka clusters fast enough to meet their recovery time objectives. Any significant downtime would have exposed their clients to millions in fines and caused severe reputational damage.

The Solution

Kannika Armory provided a high-performance, operationally decoupled backup and restore solution that continuously captures every topic, schema, and offset to immutable object storage — completely isolated from the Kafka brokers.

The Result

Within weeks of implementation, they not only met their RTO targets in tests, but also reduced their backup storage footprint by over 80% — eliminating the risk of regulatory penalties and securing their market reputation.

8h→30m

Recovery Time

"Recovery time reduced from 8 hours to under 30 minutes. Storage footprint cut by 80%. Our Business Continuity team can now sleep at night."

Chief Technology Officer

Major Financial Trade Repository

✓4+ years in production

✓Customers across 6 industries

✓Reference calls available

✓No lock-in — vendor agnostic

What is your current tested RTO for Kafka? If you don't know, that's the answer.

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