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AWS
Disaster recovery and backup inside AWS— with the full bill, not just the headline per-server fee, and the India Regions spelled out. This hub covers AWS’s resilience services only.
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The company, at a glance
Quick answer
Two intel pages. Disaster recovery and backup.
AWS’s resilience services, product by product — every linked card is a full intel page, from server failover to policy-based backup.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Continuous server replication into your AWS.
Block-level replication of EC2, other-cloud, Hyper-V, VMware and physical servers into AWS; ordered recovery plans from August 2026.
AWS Backup
One set of backup policies across AWS and VMware.
Central plans for EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, EKS and on-premises VMware, with Vault Lock, an air-gapped vault and restore tests.
AWS Resilience Hub
Platform & engineChecks an application against its RTO and RPO targets and recommends fixes, at $15 a month per application on the original model or per service on the next-generation model launched in May 2026; resilience tests bill through AWS Fault Injection Service, and Hyderabad has no meter
Amazon Application Recovery Controller
Platform & engineThe former Route 53 ARC: Region switch, launched in August 2025 at $70 per plan a month, moves a multi-Region AWS application to another Region and back, and zonal shift is free; it covers AWS-native applications, not servers in your own data centre
S3 Object Lock and Glacier classes
Platform & engineFeatures of Amazon S3 rather than products of their own: Object Lock keeps objects write-once for a period you set, and the S3 Glacier names are cheaper storage classes for archive copies, billed on the S3 meter
AWS India billing
Platform & engineAn account with an Indian contact and billing address contracts with AWS India, which invoices in rupees and records PAN and GST details; the list prices behind that invoice are still published only in US dollars
AWS sells across 2 of the products TechBag carries in backup & cyber resilience. The Backup & Cyber Resilience guide shows how the category splits and which part is yours. →
Why “the whole bill” is the whole story
AWS publishes every meter, so the price is never hidden — but the headline per-server fee is thesmallest line. Staging storage, snapshots and recovery compute make up the rest. Model the whole bill, keep copies in Mumbai or Hyderabad, and AWS is a strong DR site.
Staging area and recovery plans
Cheap staging disks and small replication servers wait in your account; a recovery plan launches servers in up to 20 ordered steps.
Point-in-time recovery
DRS keeps 10-minute points for an hour, hourly points for a day, then daily points for 1 to 365 days, to launch from before an infection.
Vault Lock and air-gapped vault
Compliance-mode Vault Lock costs nothing extra; the logically air-gapped vault is locked by default and billed at a higher per-GB rate.
Restore testing and Audit Manager
Scheduled test restores are billed per recovery point checked, $1.65 in Mumbai, and Audit Manager reports backups against your controls.
Start with the job — failing servers over into AWS, or backing up what already runs there — then model every meter.
Peer & market recognition
Every claim on this hub traces to one of these public signals.
Leader, Strategic Cloud Platform Services
a 16th consecutive year in the 2026 edition; this rates AWS as a cloud platform, not as a backup or DR product
Absent from Gartner’s backup quadrant
AWS was not evaluated in Backup and Data Protection Platforms in 2025 or 2026, and Gartner runs no current DRaaS quadrant
CSP empanelment through AWS India
for services offered from the Mumbai and Hyderabad Regions; Mumbai was fully empanelled in 2017 after an STQC audit
Elastic Disaster Recovery launched
built on CloudEndure technology; CloudEndure Disaster Recovery itself was retired in March 2024 outside a few AWS environments
Air-gapped vault generally available
AWS Backup’s logically air-gapped vault, with multi-party approval for account recovery added in June 2025
DRS in 36 Regions
six Regions added in the same month that fast recovery mode arrived for servers that already run on EC2
DRS recovery plans
ordered steps with wait and approval gates, run as a drill or a real recovery, at no extra charge
Cohasset assessment
compliance-mode Vault Lock assessed against SEC 17a-4, CFTC and FINRA record-keeping rules; US rules, not Indian ones
The company in six figures
See the platform, hear the pitch
AWS re:Invent 2024 - Backup and disaster recovery strategies for increased resilience (COP319)
A re:Invent session that treats AWS Backup and Elastic Disaster Recovery side by side.
Introduction to Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery for New AWS Users
A short primer from AWS on where backup ends and disaster recovery begins.
AWS re:Invent 2025 - Building on AWS resilience: Innovations for critical success (ARC207)
AWS’s December 2025 round-up of its resilience services and recent additions.
Where AWS sits — the grids
Two company-level views you won’t find on any vendor site — tap any dot for the rationale. The category-level grid lives on the product page.
AWS Across Its Solution Areas
Each dot is a AWS solution area: competitive position vs category momentum.
Elastic Disaster Recovery: continuous block replication from on-premises or another cloud, with recovery plans since August 2026.
Resilience Jobs Covered × Price Transparency
How many resilience jobs each vendor covers — backup, DR, cyber vault — vs how much of its pricing it publishes.
Cloud backup, VMware backup, replication DR, recovery plans and locked vaults; no SaaS backup. Every meter is public, at one DRS rate in US East, Mumbai and Hyderabad.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform standings and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
New to this? Learn it properly.
Zero-jargon starting points, in reading order. Each links into the deep education on the product page.
Where should you start with AWS?
Answer three questions; we’ll point you at the right starting product. No email required — this isn’t that kind of quiz.
1. What would hurt most if it failed today?
2. How far back might you need to go?
3. Where do the workloads run now?
Two services, two different jobs
Elastic Disaster Recovery keeps a running copy of servers ready to launch. AWS Backup keeps dated copies of data you can restore.
Read →Replicate, back up, or both?
Replication gets servers running again in minutes; backups reach weeks or months back. Most regulated estates need both, priced apart.
Read →Reading an AWS DR bill
The $0.028 per server-hour fee is about a third of the bill in AWS’s own example. Staging disks, snapshots and servers make up the rest.
Read →Backups an attacker cannot delete
Compliance-mode Vault Lock and the air-gapped vault stop anyone, AWS included, from changing copies before their retention ends.
Read →Mumbai or Hyderabad?
Both Regions run DRS and AWS Backup. Hyderabad is opt-in and has no VMware backup gateway, so on-premises VMware backups land in Mumbai.
Read →Where AWS fits in backup and resilience
The Backup & Cyber Resilience guides set backup, disaster recovery and SaaS backup apart and place AWS’s two services within them.
Read →The acronym decoder
Every term on these pages, in one place- Source server
- A machine DRS replicates: a physical server, a VMware or Hyper-V VM, a server in another cloud, or an EC2 instance.
- Staging area
- The subnet, low-cost EBS volumes and small replication servers in your AWS account that receive data before a recovery.
- Recovery instance
- The full EC2 instance DRS launches from replicated data during a drill or a real recovery, billed while it runs.
- Recovery plan
- A DRS runbook, since August 2026, that launches servers in ordered steps, with optional wait and approval steps.
- Failback Client
- The bootable DRS image that copies a recovered server back to on-premises hardware once the original site is ready.
- Backup plan
- An AWS Backup policy that sets how often resources are backed up, how long copies are kept and where copies go.
- Backup vault
- The AWS Backup container that holds recovery points, with its own encryption key and access policy.
- Vault Lock
- A setting that makes a vault’s recovery points immutable; in compliance mode nobody can lift it once the grace time ends.
- Logically air-gapped vault
- An AWS Backup vault locked by default, kept apart from your account’s keys, and shareable to another account for restores.
- Restore testing
- AWS Backup’s scheduled test restores, which check that recovery points can actually be brought back.
- RPO and RTO
- RPO is the age of the newest copy you can recover to; RTO is the time it takes to have the service running again.
- Opt-in Region
- An AWS Region, such as Hyderabad, that an account must switch on before it can use any service there.
Buy it like you’ve done this before
The procurement playbook TechBag runs with IT buyers — steps, licensing cheat-sheet, and the pitfalls that cost quarters.
List what must recover
Separate servers that must run again within hours from data that must be kept for months; the first needs DRS, the second AWS Backup.
Pick the Indian Region
Mumbai has every AWS Backup feature; Hyderabad is opt-in and has no VMware gateway. Both run DRS at the same per-server rate.
Price the whole DR bill
Add staging disks, snapshots, replication servers and drill compute to the DRS fee; in AWS’s example the fee was a third of the total.
Decide which copies are locked
Choose which vaults need compliance-mode Vault Lock or the air-gapped vault, and set retention before the lock takes hold.
Rehearse before you rely on it
Run a DRS drill through a recovery plan and schedule AWS Backup restore tests, then keep the reports as evidence for auditors.
Get it priced in rupees
AWS lists prices in USD and AWS India invoices in rupees. TechBag sizes the full bill, sets up the account and quotes in INR with GST.
The licensing cheat-sheet
| Product | Licensing model | How you enter | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elastic Disaster Recovery | Per replicating source server, by the hour · drills, recoveries and point-in-time included | $0.028/server/hour (≈ $20.44/mo), DRS fee only | Server DR into AWS |
| AWS Backup · standard vault | Per GB-month stored, plus per GB restored · EC2 and EBS bill as EBS snapshots | $0.055/GB-mo warm, $0.011 cold (Mumbai) | AWS services and VMware |
| AWS Backup · air-gapped vault | Per GB-month at a higher rate than a standard vault · Vault Lock itself is free | $0.0633/GB-mo warm for S3, EFS, VMware (Mumbai) | Ransomware-isolated copies |
| AWS Backup · restore testing | Per recovery point tested, plus normal restore charges | $1.65 per recovery point (Mumbai) | Audit evidence of restores |
| AWS Resilience Hub | Per application (original) or per service (next generation) a month | $15/app or service/mo · not in Hyderabad | Resilience assessments |
| Application Recovery Controller | Region switch per plan a month · zonal shift free | $70/plan/mo | Multi-Region AWS apps |
AWS publishes every meter in USD; AWS India invoices in INR with GST. TechBag models the full monthly bill, not just the headline fee.
Five pitfalls that cost buyers quarters
Budgeting only the DRS fee
The per-server fee leaves out staging disks, snapshots, replication servers, drill compute and data transfer, often most of the bill.
Treating replication as backup
DRS keeps daily points for at most 365 days and copies whatever the source holds. Long retention and locked copies need AWS Backup.
Expecting AWS Backup to cover everything
It protects AWS services and on-premises VMware. Hyper-V, physical servers and Microsoft 365 or other SaaS data need another product.
Choosing Hyderabad for VMware backup
Hyderabad is an opt-in Region without the VMware Backup gateway; on-premises VMware backups that must stay in India go to Mumbai.
Reading Gartner’s cloud rating as a DR rating
AWS leads Gartner’s cloud platform quadrant but was not evaluated in its backup quadrant; judge these services on drills, not that badge.
The evaluation kit
Each intel page carries an 8-question vendor checklist and a value calculator:
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Four trends with momentum scores (TechBag’s read of analyst and market signals) — and what each means for your next decision.
Category momentum — estimated market growth
Illustrative CAGR synthesis**TechBag’s illustrative estimate, not a quoted analyst figure. The takeaway: cloud is becoming the default DR site — which is why the honest question is the full monthly bill, not the per-server fee.
Orchestration moves into the DR service
AWS added ordered recovery plans with approval steps to Elastic Disaster Recovery in August 2026, at no extra charge.
What it means for you
Ask whether you still need a separate runbook tool.
Backups that survive a lost account
AWS Backup’s air-gapped vault gained multi-party approval in 2025, so a team can regain access if the owning account is compromised.
What it means for you
Plan for the day the admin account is the attacker.
Scanning backups for malware
GuardDuty Malware Protection began scanning EC2, EBS and S3 backups in AWS Backup in November 2025, billed by GuardDuty.
What it means for you
Know which copy is clean before you restore it.
Proving restores, not just backups
AWS Backup restore testing bills per recovery point tested, $1.65 in Mumbai, and produces records of each test restore.
What it means for you
Give auditors test results, not backup logs.
Questions buyers ask about AWS
Ready to shortlist AWS?
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