Owning a second data center meant paying for idle infrastructure against a disaster that might never come. In 2026, buying recovery as a managed subscription removes that standing cost while keeping the resilience, which is why more teams retire the standby site.
What It Delivers
The model replicates protected workloads to a provider environment and stands them up on demand, with recovery plans defining boot order, networking, and verification. The recovery site fully exists only when it is needed.
The Economics
A physical DR site carries fixed cost regardless of use. A managed model shifts that to capacity you pay for meaningfully only during testing and failover.
Judge on Objectives
A credible disaster recovery as a service offering is judged on committed recovery-time and recovery-point objectives and how they are proven, not on marketing language.
Test Without Disruption
The historic weakness of DR was untested plans. A managed capability makes non-disruptive testing routine: spin up recovery in isolation, verify, tear down.
Recovery as Operations
Bought this way, recovery stops being a capital project and becomes an operational capability the team exercises on a schedule.
