Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for reducing the capacity used to provide High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) in a distributed computing environment. According to one embodiment, dynamic recovery of a cloud-based resource can comprise setting a current latency value to an initial latency value and handling received requests with the current latency value. Current resource utilization can be detected while requests are being processed and a determination can be made as to whether the detected current resource utilization exceeds a predetermined threshold amount of resource utilization. In response to determining the detected current resource utilization does not exceed the threshold, the current latency amount can be maintained at the initial latency value. In response to determining the detected current resource utilization exceeds the threshold, the current latency value can be adjusted and injected into handling of received client requests.