When architecting the hybrid cloud and developing applications for it, the administrator, architect, or developer should always keep failure in mind. In other words, the hybrid cloud application should be developed to handle failures in various cloud components  and implement techniques for automated recovery from failure. Outages do occur in the cloud platform and disasters can also strike. Keeping these conditions in mind helps in developing and deploying a robust hybrid cloud application. 

The following are some of the techniques used when developing hybrid cloud applications that handle failures.