Explore the current landscape and challenges of disaster recovery in cloud native environments in this 27-minute conference talk from CNCF. Learn about the complexities introduced by new stateful workloads including AI training jobs and virtual machines, and discover how these developments are reshaping disaster recovery strategies. Examine the major architectural approaches available for disaster recovery and identify critical gaps in the current CNCF ecosystem that make implementation challenging. Gain insights into proposed improvements for existing CNCF projects and potential new initiatives designed to address these shortcomings and simplify disaster recovery implementation in cloud native infrastructures.