March 2026
Beginner
464 pages
23h 58m
English
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Chapter 25Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity in the Cloud
Business continuity and disaster recovery are not auxiliary components of cloud security—they are intrinsic to its strategic foundation. While cloud platforms introduce new capabilities for geographic redundancy, automated failover, and service abstraction, they also require new paradigms for resilience planning and operational continuity. Traditional models rooted in physical infrastructure recovery no longer suffice in environments where services are ephemeral, configurations are code, and dependencies span multiple providers and regions. Understanding how to align cloud-native architectures with continuity expectations is essential to preserving both availability and trust in modern digital services.
Strategic Foundations of Cloud DR and BCP Planning
Disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity planning (BCP) in cloud environments require a shift in mindset from traditional infrastructure-centric models to ones that are service- and configuration-oriented. In cloud architectures, the physical systems are abstracted away, placing the burden of resilience on service design, distributed data replication, and automated provisioning capabilities. This necessitates a redefinition of what constitutes recoverable components: virtual machines, storage volumes, configuration scripts, infrastructure-as-code (IaC) templates, and platform service states become the new focus of protection and restoration. The cloud ...
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