Disaster Recovery

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Definition

Plans and processes to restore technology systems after catastrophic events like fires, floods, or cyberattacks. Like having an emergency evacuation plan for your digital business.

Real-World Example

When a hurricane destroyed their main data center, the company used their disaster recovery plan to switch operations to a backup location within hours.

Cloud Provider Equivalencies

All provide managed disaster recovery capabilities to replicate workloads and orchestrate failover/failback. AWS DRS and Azure Site Recovery focus on continuous replication and recovery orchestration for servers/VMs. Google Cloud Backup and DR provides backup plus DR orchestration (often via appliance/software integration). OCI Full Stack Disaster Recovery orchestrates DR across multiple OCI services and regions, coordinating recovery plans end-to-end.

AWS
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS)
AZ
Azure Site Recovery
GCP
Google Cloud Backup and DR (formerly Actifio)
OCI
OCI Full Stack Disaster Recovery (FSDR)

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