Aug. 12, 2026 – Beyond Backups, Building a Cloud Disaster Recovery Strategy that Works

You’ve backed up your data. You’ve secured your application code and infrastructure as code. You’ve documented your runbooks. But when Google accidentally deleted a customer’s cloud environment for a week, or when organizations connected to Change Healthcare faced months of disruption after a cyberattack, backups alone weren’t enough.

Recovering cloud workloads after a regional outage or ransomware attack requires more than a technical checklist. It demands a culture of resilience built on DevOps practices such as automation, continuous testing, clear communication, and empowered teams.

In this session, we’ll explore the technical requirements for recovering cloud workloads at scale and the DevOps practices that make recovery successful under pressure. You’ll learn how to design resilient cloud architectures, implement recovery using cloud native tools, reduce operational toil through automation, and safely validate your disaster recovery strategy through frequent testing.

Key Takeaways
• Understand the core components of resilient cloud recovery.
• Design and implement scalable disaster recovery architectures.
• Apply DevOps practices that improve recovery speed and reliability.
• Reduce manual effort through automation and cloud native tooling.
• Build confidence with safe, repeatable disaster recovery testing.