The root cause was a defect in a mission critical software used by the platform to manage data. Because this is a 3rd party software, we required vendor support to resolve. Contributors to the extended recovery duration included engaging 3rd party support, substantial diagnostics and debugging tasks, and the time to compile the new code, deploy and test.
We know your business is critical, and the majority of the stress our team experienced was how this outage might be impacting your business. You have our sincere apologies for this disruption.