Why is AWS So Expensive? I Just Wanted a Disaster Recovery Plan
Discover how to use AWS for disaster recovery without the high costs of a second production environment.
Running production on an Ubuntu VPS raised concerns about disaster recovery. Instead of maintaining a second production environment on AWS, I developed an open-source tool called Ark to use AWS as a recovery environment. This setup provisions EC2 instances only during recovery drills, significantly reducing costs. The first drill achieved a recovery time of 1 minute and 58 seconds at a cost of approximately $0.01, demonstrating an efficient approach to disaster recovery without the overhead of a 24/7 production environment.
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