Disaster recovery in the cloud is DRaaS, and recovery from a backup is BaaS. Here are some key differences between the two: With BaaS, you get a cloud repository for storing backups, and with DRaaS, you get IT infrastructure mirroring in the provider’s cloud and you can run virtual servers in automatic mode. DRaaS provides an opportunity to start the required IT infrastructure recovery point and return to normal operating modalities faster because data is placed in productive storage rather than stored as an archive. DRaaS is more customizable and enables more flexibility in backup management and frequency, as well as in recovery options. BaaS supports backup of physical servers while DRaaS only replicates virtual machines.