Cloud Disaster Recovery
Cloud Disaster Recovery (Cloud DR) is a strategy for backing up and restoring data, applications, and IT infrastructure in cloud environments to ensure business continuity after disruptive events like natural disasters, cyberattacks, or system failures. It involves replicating critical systems to geographically dispersed cloud data centers and implementing automated failover processes to minimize downtime and data loss. This approach leverages cloud scalability, cost-effectiveness, and flexibility compared to traditional on-premises disaster recovery solutions.
Developers should learn and implement Cloud DR when building or maintaining applications that require high availability, regulatory compliance, or resilience against outages, such as in e-commerce, finance, or healthcare sectors. It is essential for minimizing downtime and data loss during incidents, ensuring service continuity, and meeting recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO). Use cases include multi-region deployments, automated backup strategies, and integrating with cloud-native services like AWS Disaster Recovery or Azure Site Recovery.