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title: "How Can We Test Cross-Cloud Disaster Recovery Without Disrupting Production?"  
description: "How Can We Test Cross-Cloud Disaster Recovery Without Disrupting Production?"  
author: "Shamma Al Marzooqi"  
published: 2026-10-14  
updated: 2026-10-14  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/162281/how-can-we-test-cross-cloud-disaster-recovery-without-disrupting-production  
category: "Cloud Disaster Recovery"  
tags: ["Azure", "aws", "Disaster Recovery", "Cloud Architecture"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How Can We Test Cross-Cloud Disaster Recovery Without Disrupting Production?

We have critical services split across Azure and AWS, and our recovery plan assumes we can bring the affected workloads up in the other cloud. So far, we’ve only tested pieces of the process rather than a full recovery.

What does a useful **cross-cloud disaster recovery test** look like without putting live traffic or data at unnecessary risk? I’m curious how teams validate dependencies, DNS changes, and recovery times, and how often they run a test that goes beyond checking whether the backup exists.


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Original Source: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/162281/how-can-we-test-cross-cloud-disaster-recovery-without-disrupting-production

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