Most disaster recovery plans rely on a quiet assumption: that the underlying infrastructure will cooperate when everything goes sideways. But when a major cloud provider goes down, your plan fails if your recovery process requires that same provider to participate in its own rescue.
The real grind is the portability gap. According to the 2026 Flexera report, seventy-eight percent of organizations prioritize workload portability, but only twenty-two percent actually achieve it. If you are stuck rebuilding environments with proprietary tools or restoring backups on the same impacted infrastructure, your recovery time objectives are just numbers on paper.
How to fix it:
- Define infrastructure in code instead of assembling it manually.
- Decouple environment provisioning from provider-specific tooling.
- Build deployment pipelines on open standards.
True portability means your delivery layer is completely decoupled from any single provider, ensuring your architecture remains resilient and compliant with evolving standards like DORA.
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