Terraform can play a key role in disaster recovery strategies by simplifying and accelerating the provisioning of disaster recovery-related infrastructure while reducing costs. The total cost of unplanned outages has been rising exponentially, with a 2016 study showing a mean total cost per minute of $8,851, which increased to $12,900 in 2022. Ensuring business continuity and safeguarding mission-critical systems against unexpected failures can be time-consuming, expensive, and difficult to maintain. However, leveraging infrastructure as code (IaC) within your disaster recovery plan can help reduce costs and improve consistency. Terraform can be used to effectively setup, test, and validate disaster recovery environments in a cost-efficient, practical, and consistent manner by codifying the infrastructure provisioning process. Understanding Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is crucial for selecting an appropriate disaster recovery strategy. The Backup & Data Recovery method is the least complex and costly but may lead to high RTOs and/or RPOs. Other strategies, such as Pilot Light, Active/Passive, and Multi-Region Active/Active, offer varying levels of complexity and cost. Terraform can help solve issues with disaster recovery tools being expensive, inflexible, and slow, while providing advantages like automation, repeatability, scalability, cost efficiency, and flexibility. Leveraging Terraform for disaster recovery involves codifying infrastructure provisioning, using conditional expressions to deploy required resources, and parameterizing modules to ensure consistency across environments. A real-world example demonstrates how Terraform can be used to conduct a region failover in AWS for a web server hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance behind Route 53. The example showcases the benefits of using Terraform for disaster recovery, including reduced costs, improved consistency, and enhanced scalability. Additional considerations, such as application install time, DNS propagation time, and backups, are essential when implementing a disaster recovery strategy with Terraform.