US Patent 10275346 Automatic testing of disaster recovery scenarios in cloud environments

A test application running on a first platform in a first data center is configured for disaster recovery. A first request is sent to the test application, including determining that the first request is processed by a first test application instance in the first data center. A second request is sent to the test application to generate test data. A third request is sent to a second platform in a second data center to switch traffic for the test application from the first instance to a second instance running in the second data center. A fourth request is sent to the test application, including determining that the fourth request is processed by the second instance. A fifth request is sent to the test application to validate data replicated from the first data center to the second data center. A determination is made as to whether disaster recovery is successful.