Enterprise Architecture

Disaster Recovery on a Budget: A Multi-Region Playbook for Mid-Market SaaS

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A pragmatic DR strategy that achieves RTO < 30 minutes without the cost of full active-active.

  1. 01Pilot light infra in DR region (Terraform)

    RDS read replica + minimal EKS control plane.

  2. 02Continuous data replication

    S3 CRR + RDS cross-region read replicas.

  3. 03Route53 failover record

    Health-check-driven DNS failover.

  4. 04Monthly DR test runbook

    Synthetic failover with a checklist.

5-Lever FinOps FrameworkFrom audit to optimization — week-by-week01RightsizingEC2 + RDSnWeek 1–202CommitmentsSavings PlansnWeek 303Idle AuditEBS, EIPs, NATnWeek 3–404Data TransferVPC EndpointsnWeek 5–705Cost AllocationPer-customernWeek 8–10Result: 38% cost reduction · $420K annualized savings · 99.97% uptimeReal engagement · B2B SaaS · 90 days
The 5-lever framework Ohveda used to cut a B2B SaaS client’s AWS bill by 38% in 90 days.

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