Recovery as a service

It isn’t.

What actually decides whether traditional DR or DRaaS works is how much of that gap gets closed before anyone’s forced to find out live, under pressure, with the business waiting.

The architecture changes more than the location.

Traditional DR gets described as a secondary environment waiting for the primary to fail, usually active-passive.

Somebody has to remember the network needs changing too, and none of that gets worked out in a planning meeting.

It gets worked out live, mid-incident, running on memory.

DRaaS moves those decisions earlier instead of removing them.

It usually runs on a pilot light or warm standby footprint rather than a full second site sitting idle, with replication running continuously and the startup order written down instead of living in someone’s head.