# Get started with cloud-based cleanroom recovery

Getting started with cloud-based cleanroom recovery includes defining where workloads are recovered, how they are grouped, and how recovery is executed. You can use this configuration for both recovery testing and incident response.

## Key components

Cleanroom recovery uses the following components:

- Cleanroom site: The isolated environment where recovered workloads run. The site is created automatically or selected when you create a runbook.

- Recovery group: A collection of workloads that are recovered together.

- Runbook: The sequence of actions that controls how recovery is performed, including where workloads are recovered and in what order.

## Best practices

- Align cleanroom networking and configuration with your production environment to ensure meaningful validation.

- Define recovery groups based on application dependencies, not infrastructure boundaries.

- Separate foundational services, such as Active Directory, into dedicated recovery groups and validate them before recovering dependent workloads.

- Group application components that must be validated together, such as application servers and their supporting databases.

- Specify a recovery order that reflects real application startup behavior so workloads are recovered in a functional and testable state.

- Review and update recovery groups and runbooks as applications and dependencies change.

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