🌩️ When the cloud goes down: how Commvault helps you design a provider-independent Disaster Recovery strategy

What the AWS outage made clear

Today (October 20, 2025), thousands of companies went offline due to a major AWS outage. Websites, e-commerce platforms, and applications stopped working because they depended on a single provider. The AWS outage once again proved an uncomfortable truth: no cloud is infallible.

At AT Vault, we see these events as reminders of a simple reality: the cloud can also fail. The good news is that there are ways to keep your business from coming to a halt during a crisis like this.

The problem with technology dependency

Many organizations use a single platform for everything (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud). That initial simplicity comes with a hidden risk: a single point of failure. When a major outage occurs, organizations lose not only access to data and applications, but also sales, reputation, and customer trust.

Commvault and the power of agnostic disaster recovery

Commvault protects data, virtual machines, and applications in any environment: on-premises, cloud, or multicloud.

It enables you to design a truly independent multicloud environment. You can back up and restore your data across different clouds —AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, or even your own data center— without changing your processes or losing information.

Its strength lies in backup portability and recovery automation, enabling you to:

From AWS → Azure → Oracle Cloud → On-premises

Practical example

Imagine your ecommerce site is hosted on AWS and, suddenly, the platform experiences a global outage. With Commvault, you could bring up a replica in Azure or Google Cloud in a matter of minutes. Your customers would continue buying without noticing the difference, and you would gain something even more valuable than uptime: trust.

Practical guide: how to prepare your continuity plan with Commvault

1. Assess your risks: identify which services you cannot afford to have go down.
2. Define recovery objectives: establish your RTO (maximum recovery time) and RPO (maximum acceptable data loss).
3. Automate recovery: configure failover workflows between clouds or between your data center and the cloud.
4. Test your plan: run disaster recovery simulations at least twice a year.
5. Document and monitor: use Commvault’s centralized reports to maintain visibility and meet compliance requirements.

A culture of continuity: more than technology

Resilience is not bought, it is built.

Commvault is the tool, but mindset is what makes the difference.

SMBs that plan for continuity do more than survive an outage: they become more competitive, because they operate with confidence and predictability.

Real-time dashboard

The decision that does not depend on any cloud

Technology disruptions are inevitable, but disasters are not.

Outages on platforms like AWS are not a remote possibility, but an eventual certainty. The difference between a disruption and a successful recovery lies in having a multicloud disaster recovery strategy with Commvault. That way, your company becomes truly technology-agnostic, resilient, and prepared to keep operating without interruptions.

Frequently asked questions

What is an agnostic disaster recovery strategy?

It is one where your recovery capability does not depend on the provider experiencing the outage: backups and recovery orchestration live outside the failure domain, and you can bring services up in another cloud or site.

Do I need to duplicate my entire infrastructure in another cloud?

No: for most organizations, replicas of critical systems and orchestrated recovery are enough — you pay for storage, not idle duplicate infrastructure. The DRP defines what each level requires.

How often should a continuity plan be tested?

Targeted restores every quarter, full recovery of a critical system every six months, and an annual drill with assigned roles. A plan without a test date on the calendar is just wishful thinking.