
Ivan Vidito reintroduced RDS disaster recovery capabilities for the NASA-IMPACT/veda-data-airflow repository, restoring automated retrieval of RDS snapshots and secure export to S3 with Glue-based indexing. He designed and implemented supporting infrastructure using Terraform and Python, establishing IAM roles, Glue crawlers, and KMS key management to ensure encrypted, compliant data handling. The work reinstated end-to-end disaster recovery workflows in Airflow DAGs, following a previous feature removal, and prioritized resilience, data availability, and safe rollback. Ivan’s approach demonstrated depth in AWS data engineering and infrastructure as code, laying a robust foundation for faster restores and reliable disaster recovery testing.

March 2025 - NASA-IMPACT/veda-data-airflow monthly performance summary focusing on business value and technical achievements. Key feature delivered: RDS Disaster Recovery reintroduction. This work restores retrieval of RDS snapshots and export to S3 with Glue indexing, and includes the infrastructure for export IAM roles/policies, Glue crawling, and a KMS key. This reintroduction follows a revert of the feature that removed related DAGs and infra. The month prioritized resilience, data availability, and secure data export. Overall impact: Reinstating the DR capability reduces recovery time, minimizes data loss risk, and ensures compliant, encrypted data export to S3 with automated indexing. Sets foundation for faster restores and more reliable disaster recovery testing in production. Technologies/skills demonstrated: AWS RDS, S3, Glue (indexing and crawling), IAM roles/policies, KMS key management, Airflow DAGs/infrastructure management, release-safe rollback and feature reintroduction. Note: No additional features or major bug fixes were completed in this period beyond the DR reintroduction.
March 2025 - NASA-IMPACT/veda-data-airflow monthly performance summary focusing on business value and technical achievements. Key feature delivered: RDS Disaster Recovery reintroduction. This work restores retrieval of RDS snapshots and export to S3 with Glue indexing, and includes the infrastructure for export IAM roles/policies, Glue crawling, and a KMS key. This reintroduction follows a revert of the feature that removed related DAGs and infra. The month prioritized resilience, data availability, and secure data export. Overall impact: Reinstating the DR capability reduces recovery time, minimizes data loss risk, and ensures compliant, encrypted data export to S3 with automated indexing. Sets foundation for faster restores and more reliable disaster recovery testing in production. Technologies/skills demonstrated: AWS RDS, S3, Glue (indexing and crawling), IAM roles/policies, KMS key management, Airflow DAGs/infrastructure management, release-safe rollback and feature reintroduction. Note: No additional features or major bug fixes were completed in this period beyond the DR reintroduction.
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