This guide explains why backup alone is insufficient for modern disaster recovery and outlines how cloud-native DR strategies improve resilience against ransomware, outages, and natural disasters. It contrasts legacy approaches such as secondary data centers and appliances with disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS). Key concepts include achieving aggressive RPO and RTO targets, leveraging cloud elasticity, and enabling fast VM spin-up for business continuity. The guide walks through four essential steps: business impact analysis, risk assessment, risk management strategy design, and continuous testing. Cloud-native DRaaS reduces costs, simplifies operations, and enables rapid recovery across more workloads, making comprehensive disaster recovery accessible beyond only the most critical ap

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