True organizational resilience in the cloud era extends beyond traditional disaster recovery. It is no longer enough to have backup plans; you must proactively design and test systems for the certainty of failure. The concentration of services within a few hyperscale providers means the potential impact of a major incident is now far greater. This requires a fundamental shift in mindset from reactive incident response to continuous, proactive resilience engineering.
This resilience is a shared responsibility. While providers are responsible for the resilience of the cloud (the infrastructure), your organization is responsible for resilience in the cloud. This means architecting your applications for high availability, implementing robust security controls, and continuously testing your environment against various failure scenarios. Without rigorous and sustained testing, your resilience strategy is merely theoretical.
