Cloud disaster recovery is the process of restoring cloud workloads after a failure so the business can keep running.

But cloud DR is not only about restoring data.

To bring an application back online, teams also need to recover the infrastructure configuration, permissions, DNS, networking, service dependencies, and control-plane settings that allow the workload to run again.

A backup may restore your database.

But if IAM roles, routes, DNS records, secrets, or cloud configurations are missing or misconfigured, the application can still stay down.

That is why modern cloud disaster recovery needs to cover both data recovery and infrastructure recovery.

TL;DR

Cloud disaster recovery helps teams restore cloud workloads after failures.

It includes:

Data

Infrastructure configuration

IAM and permissions

DNS

Networking

Service dependencies

External control-layer services

Backups are important, but they do not guarantee recovery.

A restore can still fail if the surrounding cloud configuration is…