Objectives
- ✓ RTO and RPO agreed with the business
- ✓ Critical dependencies identified
- ✓ Data consistency expectations defined
FinOps Academy · Production operations
Disaster Recovery Plan
Translate business recovery needs into tested technical recovery procedures and evidence.
Cloud engineers, architects, product owners and finance partnersOperational evidence required
Recovery design
- ✓ Backups isolated and restorable
- ✓ Failover sequence documented
- ✓ Access during emergency is controlled
Validation
- ✓ Restore tests scheduled
- ✓ Exercise results recorded
- ✓ Gaps tracked to closure
Evidence standard
Do not mark this guide complete because a document exists. Completion requires reviewed configuration, test evidence, named ownership, known-risk decisions and a repeatable operating procedure.