Healthcare

Isolated Recovery Environment (IRE)

Protecting Your Epic Investment:
Recovery in Minutes, Not Weeks

IRE on AWS

Minutes

Most health systems

4 to 6 weeks

at an average cost of $1.9M per day

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If ransomware hit tonight, what is the impact of clinicians being locked out of patient records?

$7,500

per minute of downtime

Ponemon Institute

$450,000

for a one-hour outage

Ponemon Institute

$1.9M

each day of downtime due to ransomware

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Why AWS for IRE

With healthcare cyberattacks accelerating, Epic used UGM 2026 to reiterate its strong recommendation that all health systems implement an Isolated Recovery Environment (IRE).

6 to 8 weeks

Live in as little as 6 to 8 weeks using validated, pre-built architecture

90.7%

Best in KLAS two years running. 90.7% performance score, 2.2x fewer service events than the next provider

First year

Potential to reduce cybersecurity insurance premiums within the first year

Highest-rated

Aligns to Epic best practices on the highest-rated cloud for Epic as reported by KLAS

Implementing an IRE for EHR on AWS

Primary EHR environment

Secure Data Transfer

one-way data transfer protocols automated backup verification processes immutable backup storage

Physical Isolation

Isolated Recovery Environment (IRE)

air-gapped copy of your system

strict network segmentation controlled cross-account access mechanisms physical separation of backup storage

Rapid Recovery Capabilities

automated recovery procedures regular recovery testing protocols rapid infrastructure deployment using AWS CloudFormation scalable compute resources for emergency operations

Clinicians access patient records

Strengthening EHR Resilience with Isolated Recovery Environments on AWS

IRE on AWS

Would you have 15 minutes this week or next for a brief conversation on how we can help your organization get started?

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IRE on AWS

AWS is making investments to accelerate IRE adoption

Implementation funding
Certified expertise
Hands-on training for your Epic technical team
Cybersecurity insurance discount support
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