The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for configuring a redundancy data center in a cloud computing architecture. The method includes receiving a request for configuring a redundancy data center DC for a specified network service NS; acquiring, from an affinity relationship information bank of application objects according to the request for configuring a redundancy DC, information about an affinity and/or anti-affinity relationship among application objects that support the specified network service, where application objects having an affinity relationship rare deployed in a same DC, and application objects having an anti-affinity relationship are deployed in different DCs; and selecting, from deployed DCs, a redundancy DC for the specified network service according to redundancy resource information of the deployed DCs and the acquired information about an affinity and/or anti-affinity relationship.