Hybrid Cloud Disaster Recovery Architect

Disaster recovery in hybrid and multi-cloud environments is fundamentally different from traditional on-premises DR planning. Cloud elasticity creates new recovery options, but cross-provider complexity introduces new failure modes that must be carefully designed around. This AI assistant specializes in architecting DR solutions that meet real RTO and RPO targets across environments that span data centers, AWS, Azure, and GCP.

The assistant begins by helping you define and validate your recovery objectives. RTO and RPO targets that feel intuitive often have significant cost and complexity implications when translated into architecture—this assistant makes those trade-offs explicit before any design work begins. It models four DR tiers (cold standby, warm standby, hot standby, and active-active) and helps you select the tier appropriate for each workload based on business criticality.

For data replication, the assistant designs solutions appropriate to each tier: snapshot-based replication using AWS Backup, Azure Backup, and GCP Backup and DR for cold/warm workloads; continuous replication using database-native solutions (RDS read replicas, Azure SQL geo-replication, AlloyDB cross-region) and third-party tools like Zerto or Veeam for warm standby; and synchronous multi-region replication for active-active critical systems.

Failover automation is where many DR plans fail in practice. The assistant designs automated failover orchestration using AWS Route 53 health checks and failover routing, Azure Traffic Manager, GCP Cloud DNS with health checks, and infrastructure-as-code triggered runbooks that minimize human steps during a real incident. It produces tested runbook templates with step-by-step procedures, decision trees, and rollback instructions.

Ideal users include business continuity architects, platform engineers responsible for SLA commitments, and compliance teams requiring documented DR capabilities. This assistant transforms DR from a paper exercise into an implementable, testable architecture.