---
name: resiliency-services-ha-dr
title: Service documentation for high availability and disaster recovery
description: IBM Cloud has a resilient global network of locations to host your highly available cloud workload, as described in IBM Cloud region and data center locations for resource deployment. While services share a similar structure, each has unique characteristics to consider when you're building highly available solutions or planning for disaster recovery.
last-updated: 2026-05-01
---

> ## Documentation Index
> The table of contents for this documentation set is at https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/resiliency?format=markdown
> The index for all IBM Cloud docs is at: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use these files to discover more information as needed.

# Service documentation for high availability and disaster recovery
{: #service-ha-dr}

IBM Cloud has a resilient global network of locations to host your highly available cloud workload, as described in [IBM Cloud region and data center locations for resource deployment](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/overview?topic=overview-locations&format=markdown). While services share a similar structure, each has unique characteristics to consider when you're building highly available solutions or planning for disaster recovery.

- [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery for Activity Tracker Event Routing](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/atracker?topic=atracker-atracker-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery for API Connect](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/apiconnect?topic=apiconnect-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery for App ID](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/appid?topic=appid-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery for Code Engine](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/codeengine?topic=codeengine-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery for Kubernetes Service](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/containers?topic=containers-iks-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery for Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/openshift?topic=openshift-iks-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery for Cloud Logs](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-logs?topic=cloud-logs-cloud-logs-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery for Cloud Shell](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-shell?topic=cloud-shell-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery for Event Notifications](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/event-notifications?topic=event-notifications-en-high-availability&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery for IBM Cloudant](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant?topic=Cloudant-service-name-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery for IBM Cloud CLI](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cli?topic=cli-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery for IBM Cloud Object Storage](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-object-storage?topic=cloud-object-storage-cos-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery for IBM Cloud VPC](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-ha-dr-vpc&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery for Logs Routing](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/logs-router?topic=logs-router-logs-router-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery for Metrics Routing](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/metrics-router?topic=metrics-router-metrics-router-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery for Monitoring](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-monitoring-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery for Satellite](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/satellite?topic=satellite-sat-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery for Schematics](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/schematics?topic=schematics-high-availability&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery for Secrets Manager](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/secrets-manager?topic=secrets-manager-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery for Transit Gateway](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/transit-gateway?topic=transit-gateway-ha-dr-transit-gateway&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery for VCF as a Service](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmware-service?topic=vmware-service-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery for VMware Solutions](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability for App Configuration](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/app-configuration?topic=app-configuration-ac-ha&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability for CIS](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cis?topic=cis-ha&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability for Cloud Databases for Elasticsearch](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-elasticsearch-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability for Cloud Databases for MongoDB](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-mongodb-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability for Cloud Databases for MySQL](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mysql?topic=databases-for-mysql-mysql-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability for Cloud Databases for Postgresql](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-postgresql?topic=databases-for-postgresql-postgresql-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability for Cloud Databases for Rabbitmq](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/messages-for-rabbitmq?topic=messages-for-rabbitmq-rabbitmq-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability for Cloud Databases for Redis](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-redis?topic=databases-for-redis-redis-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability for Cloud Databases](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-databases?topic=cloud-databases-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability for Direct Link](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/dl?topic=dl-ha-dr-dl&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability for IBM OpenPages as a Service](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/openpages?topic=openpages-ha&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability for NPSaaS](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/netezza?topic=netezza-ha&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability for Workload Protection](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/workload-protection?topic=workload-protection-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability for projects](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/secure-enterprise?topic=secure-enterprise-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Availability and Durability of VPC storage](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-storageavailability&format=markdown)
- [Understanding business continuity and disaster recovery for CIS](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cis?topic=cis-bc-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding business continuity and disaster recovery for Cloud Databases](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-databases?topic=cloud-databases-bc-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding business continuity and disaster recovery for Direct Link](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/dl?topic=dl-ha-dr-dl&format=markdown)
- [Understanding business continuity and disaster recovery for Event Notifications](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/event-notifications?topic=event-notifications-en-bc-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding business continuity and disaster recovery for IBM OpenPages](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/openpages?topic=openpages-bc-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding business continuity and disaster recovery for NPSaaS](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/netezza?topic=netezza-understanding-bc-dr&format=markdown)
- [Understanding business continuity and disaster recovery for projects](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/secure-enterprise?topic=secure-enterprise-bc-dr&format=markdown)
- [Creating a routing configuration resilient to a regional disaster](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/metrics-router?topic=metrics-router-dr_config&format=markdown)