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The Cloud (Alone) Is Not a Disaster Recovery Strategy

Umair Shahid explains that you need more:

When AWS stumbled – twice – in October 2025, many teams discovered that “we are in the cloud” is not the same as “we have disaster recovery”.

Applications went offline, customer-facing portals returned errors, and internal dashboards that teams rely on every morning failed to load.

Most of those systems were already running on managed cloud services. They had multi-AZ databases, auto scaling groups, and health checks. What they did not have was a clear answer to three simple questions:

Read on for those questions, which are critical to ensuring business continuity.

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