WORKLOAD DISTRIBUTION TO FAILOVER SITES BASED ON LOCAL SITE PROPERTIES

Provisioning workloads in a distributed computing environment includes receiving a workload by one or more processors maintained at a primary site located at a first geographical location, which is associated with first geographical characteristics. The workload is associated, based on the first geographical characteristics, with the primary site and the first geographical location using metadata of the workload. A secondary site for the workload, located at a second geographical location having second geographical characteristics, is identified based on the second geographical characteristics satisfying predefined constraints of the workload. The secondary site is established as a backup site to provision the workload to responsive to a failover event occurring.