OCI Disaster Recovery Calculator
Cost an OCI standby region at pilot-light, warm or hot capacity and check the bandwidth your RPO actually needs.
About OCI Disaster Recovery Calculator
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.
Formula
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.
- standby capacity %
- Fraction of production capacity kept running in the standby region
- peak factor
- How much burstier real change is than the daily average
- 8 × 1024
- Converts gigabytes per day into megabits per second
Worked example
With the default values below, OCI Disaster Recovery Calculator returns Monthly DR Cost of $4,142.85. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.
Inputs used
- Production monthly costaccepts 0–10,000,000 USD
- 8,000 USD
- Standby postureone of Backup and restore (no standby compute), Pilot light (core services only), Warm standby (scaled-down live copy), Hot standby (full capacity)
- Warm standby (scaled-down live copy)
- Data protectedaccepts 1–10,000,000 GB
- 5,000 GB
- Daily change rateaccepts 0–100 %
- 4 %
- Peak-to-average change ratioaccepts 1–20 ×
- 3 ×
- Resources protected by Full Stack DRaccepts 0–1,000 members
- 6 members
- Full Stack DR price per member-houraccepts 0–10 USD/hour
- 0.032 USD/hour
- Free egress allowanceaccepts 0–100 TB/month
- 10 TB/month
- Cross-region transfer price per GBaccepts 0–1 USD/GB
- 0.0085 USD/GB
- Billed hours per monthaccepts 1–744 hours
- 744 hours
Results
- Monthly DR Cost
- $4,142.85
- Standby Capacity Charge
- $4,000.00
- Replication Transfer Charge
- $0.00
- Full Stack DR Charge
- $142.85
- Replication Bandwidth Needed
- 56.9 Mbps
- Data Replicated per Month
- 6,000 GB
- DR as a Share of Production
- 51.8%
- Posture Verdict
- Warm standby — live but scaled down, so recovery means scaling out first
Step by step
- 1Values used
- 2OCI Disaster Recovery
- 3Monthly DR Cost= 4,142.85
- 4Standby Capacity Charge= 4,000.00
- 5Replication Transfer Charge= 0.00
- 6Full Stack DR Charge= 142.85
- 7Replication Bandwidth Needed= 56.9 Mbps
- 8Data Replicated per Month= 6,000 GB
Assumptions and limits
- The result is derived only from the 10 inputs listed above. Anything not among them is not part of the calculation.
- In particular, this calculator does not take inflation, tax or compounding frequency into account.
- Figures are rounded for display to 2 decimal places, so totals built from several rounded parts can differ slightly from the unrounded arithmetic.
How these calculators are built and tested is described on the Methodology page. If a figure looks wrong, please report it.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is OCI Disaster Recovery calculated?
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.
Why does OCI Disaster Recovery matter?
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.
What values do I need to enter?
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.