Are your primary and secondary data centers geographically diverse?

This question is asking whether your organization maintains primary and secondary data centers that are located in different geographic regions. Geographic diversity in data centers is a critical aspect of disaster recovery and business continuity planning. What this means: Having geographically diverse data centers means your backup/secondary data center is located far enough away from your primary data center that both are unlikely to be affected by the same natural disaster, power outage, or regional disruption. Why it's being asked: This question assesses your organization's resilience against regional disasters or outages. If both your primary and secondary data centers are in the same geographic area (e.g., same city or region), they could both be impacted by the same event such as a hurricane, earthquake, flood, regional power outage, or telecommunications failure. Geographic diversity helps ensure that if one data center goes offline due to a regional event, the other can continue operations. How to best answer it: Be specific about the locations of your data centers and the approximate distance between them. If they are in different regions, states, or countries, mention this explicitly. If you use cloud providers, specify the regions where your primary and backup environments are hosted. If you don't have geographically diverse data centers, explain your alternative disaster recovery strategies or plans to implement geographic diversity in the future.