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