Map Of Content Recovery Time Objective Recovery Point Objective Service Level Agreement Disaster Recovery Runbooks - a must for what needs to happen in case of a critical data crash. When you are tired and stressed, last thing you want is to have no way forward. Backup strategy Follow the 3-2-1 Backup Rule Infrastructure As Code up enable automatic recovery Monitoring and Alerting Geographic Failover Chaos Engineering Failure Recovery Notes When thinking about disaster recovery, think about which systems are mission critical and focus on first and foremost recovering them. Document them! Relationships between them May cause a Cascading Crash Testing and validation Regularly test the created run books in a replicated test environment Simulate different disaster states, like data loss, data corruption, etc Post recovery steps Include detailed instructions on what to do after a disaster scenario Create automated validation run books Perform a Root Cause Analysis on what happened and inform your consumers