A method, apparatus and system for providing a cloud-based disaster recovery test include receiving, at a cloud-based computing platform, a request for a disaster recovery test of at least a portion of a client's data network, in response to the received request, creating an isolated network in the cloud-based computing platform, cloning, in the isolated network, machines and configurations of the at least the portion of the client's data network to be included in the cloud-based disaster recovery test, reserving resources of the cloud-based computing platform based on the cloned machines and configurations of the at least the portion of the client's data network and an associated data handler to be deployed in the cloud-based disaster recovery test, and enabling the cloned machines for use by the client for performing the cloud-based disaster recovery test in the cloud-based computing platform.