Systems and methods for a service based disaster recovery system are disclosed. Embodiments may include the ability to configure and deploy a DR environment, including providing the ability to configure a DR service in the DR environment for one or more deployed primary services in a primary environment. An environment management database holds DR configuration data including the status of the deployed services. An environment manager may interact with the environment management database to determine an associated action for the services. The services may perform activation (e.g., wake up) or enter a standby mode (e.g., sleep) depending on the determined action.