Resiliency in IBM Cloud

In information technology (IT), resiliency is broadly defined as the ability of an organization or solution to maintain essential systems and applications and to recover from disruptions. Resiliency in IBM Cloud focuses on the perspective of IBM clients, their solution planners, architects, and builders and the resilient solutions that they create on the IBM Cloud platform.

Resiliency requirements and capabilities must be considered according to how critical the application or solution is for an organization. As tolerance for downtime decreases, resiliency helps ensure that businesses can continue operations according to their requirements or service level objectives (SLOs). For more information, see IBM Cloud service level objectives.

Resiliency is a shared responsibility between IBM Cloud and clients that build solutions with IBM Cloud services. IBM Cloud services provide the components of the solution and guarantee their resiliency according to their Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Clients are responsible for putting the components together in resilient configurations that achieve their SLOs. For more information, see Shared responsibilities for using IBM Cloud products.

The following guide provides an overview of basic concepts and capabilities, including high availability, disaster recovery, cyber resiliency, and IBM Cloud assurances in these areas. You can find everything that you need to help you design, plan, test, and support operational resiliency regulations for your IBM Cloud solutions. Get a general view of IBM Cloud resiliency capabilities and best practices, which you can use with your solutions, and IBM Cloud service-specific capabilities from the services own documentation.

For a broader view of IBM resiliency, see the IBM Well-Architected Framework.