OCI Disaster Recovery Calculator
Cost an OCI standby region at pilot-light, warm or hot capacity and check the bandwidth your RPO actually needs.
Inputs
Change is bursty, so replication must carry more than the daily average.
Monthly DR Cost
$222.85
Standby Capacity Charge
$80.00
Replication Transfer Charge
$0.00
Full Stack DR Charge
$142.85
Replication Bandwidth Needed
56.9Mbps
Data Replicated per Month
6,000GB
DR as a Share of Production
2.8%
Posture Verdict
Backup and restore — cheapest posture, measured in hours of recovery
Step by step
Values used
Production monthly cost = 8,000 USD; Standby posture = warm % of production capacity; Data protected = 5,000 GB; Daily change rate = 4 %; Peak-to-average change ratio = 3 ×; Resources protected by Full Stack DR = 6 members; Full Stack DR price per member-hour = 0.0320 USD/hour; Free egress allowance = 10 TB/month; Cross-region transfer price per GB = 0.0085 USD/GB; Billed hours per month = 744 hours
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.
Monthly DR Cost
= 222.85
Standby Capacity Charge
= 80.00
Replication Transfer Charge
= 0.00
Full Stack DR Charge
= 142.85
Replication Bandwidth Needed
= 56.9 Mbps
Data Replicated per Month
= 6,000 GB
How it works
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
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.