Cloud Disaster Recovery (Cloud DR): Overview & Best Practices Cloud Disaster Recovery (Cloud DR) is a strategy that uses cloud-based infrastructure and services to ensure data and application availability in the event of a disaster — such as hardware failure, cyberattacks, natural disasters, or human error. It allows organizations to recover quickly and minimize downtime. 🔍 What Is Cloud Disaster Recovery? Cloud DR replicates and stores critical IT systems and data in the cloud , so they can be restored or brought online from a remote cloud environment when the primary systems fail. This can involve: Backing up data to the cloud Running applications from a secondary cloud location Using cloud-based failover systems 🧠 Why Use Cloud for Disaster Recovery? Traditional DR Cloud-Based DR Requires duplicate data centers Uses scalable cloud infrastructure High CapEx (hardware, facilities) Pay-as-you-go (Opex model) Slow provisioning Rapid deployment and automation Ma...