Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is a cloud-based model that enables businesses to replicate and recover their IT infrastructure during a disruption. It safeguards critical data, applications, and workloads by continuously backing them up to a secure cloud environment—ensuring operations can resume quickly after an outage, ransomware attack, or natural disaster.
In simple terms, DRaaS gives you a safety net when the unexpected hits. Instead of maintaining costly recovery hardware, organizations rely on cloud providers to handle replication, failover, and recovery testing—turning complex disaster planning into an on-demand service.
We often see IT leaders adopt DRaaS to strengthen business continuity and meet compliance standards. It not only reduces downtime risk but also supports hybrid environments where resilience needs to extend across on-premise and cloud systems.
Key advantages include:
- Rapid Recovery: Minimize downtime with automated failover.
- Cost Efficiency: Replace capital-intensive DR setups with a scalable service.
- Compliance: Meet uptime and data protection requirements.
- Peace of Mind: Protect operations from ransomware, outages, or data loss.
Our take? DRaaS transforms disaster recovery from a static plan into an active strategy—keeping businesses resilient no matter what happens next.
Want the full breakdown? Explore our Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) Guide to see how cloud-based recovery keeps operations moving when every second counts. For deeper insights, read our blogs DRaaS + CDN: The Overlooked Combo for Media Resilience and Network Disaster Recovery, Why Live Events Break Without DRaaS — And How Netflix Streaming Issues Prove It, and 3 Ways DRaaS Strengthens Your Ransomware Recovery. You can also listen to Backups Don’t Equal Recovery for a clear look at the difference between data protection and true continuity, or explore our report Rethinking Security in the Digital Age to understand how resilience fits into a broader cybersecurity strategy.
