Owning a second data center meant paying for idle hardware against a disaster that might never arrive. In 2026, buying recovery as a subscription capability replaces that standing cost, which is why the dedicated standby site is fading.
From Capital to Operating Cost
A physical DR site carries fixed cost regardless of use. A subscription model shifts that to capacity you pay for meaningfully only during testing and failover, delivering enterprise recovery without the idle-asset penalty.
What You Actually Buy
The capability 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 needed.
Judging the Offering
A credible cloud based disaster recovery service is judged on tested recovery objectives, not marketing. Ask for the recovery-time and recovery-point commitments and how they are proven.
Test on a Schedule
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 regularly.
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