Building cloud resilience

How to recover all that matters and ensure your business is ready for anything

The continued adoption of cloud computing puts increased importance on securely storing and protecting your data, dependencies, and applications, in any location or point of time.

Our members at various stages in their cloud journey need to continuously be able to discover, protect, recover, and rebuild to deliver cyber resilience and maintain continuous business operations from their data in the cloud.

The need for cloud resilience

As organisations increasingly rely on cloud computing for critical operations, cloud resilience has become a necessity. Cloud resilience refers to the ability of cloud-based systems to withstand, adapt to, and recover from disruptions, ensuring continuous availability, performance, and security.

Why cloud resilience matters

Minimising downtime: Outages can be costly, both financially and reputationally.
Downtime can disrupt customer experiences and internal workflows.
Cybersecurity threats: Cloud environments are frequent targets for cyberattacks (DDoS, ransomware, data breaches). Resilience ensures rapid detection, containment, and recovery.
Compliance & data integrity: Regulations (GDPR, HIPAA, etc.) require data protection and continuity plans. Ensures data availability, consistency, and security.
Scalability & performance stability: Cloud applications must handle traffic spikes without crashing. Resilience allows auto-scaling, load balancing, and failover mechanisms.
Disaster recovery & business continuity: Natural disasters, hardware failures, or human errors can impact cloud services. A resilient cloud strategy includes backup, redundancy, and failover solutions.

Key strategies for cloud resilience

Multi-cloud & hybrid cloud deployment – Reduces dependency on a single provider.
Automated failover & redundancy – Ensures seamless switching to backup systems.
Robust Monitoring & Incident Response – Real-time alerts and automated recovery mechanisms.
Zero Trust security model – Limits access and mitigates cyber risks.
Regular backups & disaster recovery plans – Ensures data protection and quick restoration.

In summary

Cloud resilience is no longer optional—it’s a critical requirement for businesses of all sizes.

For resilience strategies that stand up to the rigors of modern business, organisations must proactively design resilient cloud architectures to ensure continuous availability, security, and performance in an era of growing cyber threats and operational risks.

Continuous cloud configuration

With the ability to protect cloud configurations away from your primary cloud provider, you can recover lost cloud service configurations – recover load balancers, security groups, gateways, PaaS or Serverless and much more – and rebuild isolated environments (cleanrooms) after a ransomware attack away from the infected environment.

This eBook from Commvault delves further into cloud resilience use cases, and how you can implement them in your organisation.