Infrastructure Disaster Recovery with Terraform: State Recovery, Blue-Green Infrastructure, and Rebuild Procedures

Calendar February 22, 2026
Infrastructure
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Terraform-Dr, State-Recovery, Infrastructure-Rebuild, Cross-Region-Patterns
Terraform, Disaster-Recovery, State-Recovery, Blue-Green, Immutable-Infrastructure, Cross-Region, Backup, Runbook
Terraform, Aws-Cli, Az, Gcloud

Infrastructure Disaster Recovery with Terraform#

Application disaster recovery is well-understood: replicate data, failover traffic, restore from backups. Infrastructure disaster recovery is different — you are recovering the platform that applications run on. If your Terraform state is lost, your VPC is deleted, or an entire region goes down, how do you rebuild?

This article covers the DR patterns specific to Terraform-managed infrastructure: protecting state, recovering from state loss, designing infrastructure for regional failover, and the runbooks that agents and operators need when things go wrong.