Cost an OCI standby region at pilot-light, warm or hot capacity and check the bandwidth your RPO actually needs.
Standby cost is a direct fraction of production, and the posture you choose sets that fraction: a hot standby doubles the bill while a pilot light runs at a fraction of it. The bandwidth figure is separate and unforgiving — replication must drain the daily change at its peak rate, otherwise the recovery point silently slips further behind than your RPO allows. Most DR designs fail on bandwidth rather than budget: if the link cannot carry peak change, the standby lags and the RPO on paper is fiction. Pricing the postures side by side turns the recovery-time conversation into a number the business can choose from. Confirm standby compute, cross-region transfer and Full Stack DR prices in the Oracle Cloud cost estimator for your region.
OCI Disaster Recovery
DR cost = production cost × standby capacity % + max(0, replicated GB − free GB) × transfer rate + members × DR rate × hours; bandwidth = daily change GB × 8 × 1024 ÷ 86,400 × peak factor.
DR cost = production cost × standby capacity % + max(0, replicated GB − free GB) × transfer rate + members × DR rate × hours; bandwidth = daily change GB × 8 × 1024 ÷ 86,400 × peak factor. Standby cost is a direct fraction of production, and the posture you choose sets that fraction: a hot standby doubles the bill while a pilot light runs at a fraction of it. The bandwidth figure is separate and unforgiving — replication must drain the daily change at its peak rate, otherwise the recovery point silently slips further behind than your RPO allows.
Most DR designs fail on bandwidth rather than budget: if the link cannot carry peak change, the standby lags and the RPO on paper is fiction. Pricing the postures side by side turns the recovery-time conversation into a number the business can choose from. Confirm standby compute, cross-region transfer and Full Stack DR prices in the Oracle Cloud cost estimator for your region.
This calculator takes 10 inputs: Production monthly cost, Standby posture, Data protected, Daily change rate, Peak-to-average change ratio, Resources protected by Full Stack DR, Full Stack DR price per member-hour, Free egress allowance, Cross-region transfer price per GB, Billed hours per month. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.