Disaster Recovery in the Cloud

Disaster Recovery in the Cloud Disaster recovery in the cloud helps organizations stay online when something goes wrong. Cloud tools let teams copy data to multiple regions, automate failover, and scale recovery capacity up or down as needed. With a clear plan, routine tests, and simple runbooks, you can recover faster and with less risk of data loss. Two core ideas guide any DR plan: recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO). RTO is how quickly you restart critical services after an outage. RPO is how much data you can afford to lose. In the cloud, you can trade speed for cost and choose strategies that fit your goals, from simple backups to active-active architectures. ...

September 22, 2025 · 2 min · 339 words