Budgeting for cloud disaster recovery: worked scenarios from published prices

Prices below are the figures vendors published on the pages we reviewed on 27 September 2026. They are list prices, before any discount, and they may change. The arithmetic is ours. The calculator runs the same sums with your own inputs.

What can you price from public pages?

Two vendors in this edition publish prices a buyer can model:

• Arpio prices by tier and number of clouds, billed annually: Standard $12k single-cloud or $18k multi-cloud with 25 core resources; Premium $36k or $54k with 50 core resources; Enterprise custom for 100 or more core resources. Arpio counts core resources as server-like components such as VMs, databases and file systems.
• Veeam publishes its SaaS offering at $42 per TB per month. Software pricing varies.

Firefly publishes its Essential tier at $2,499 a month billed annually for up to 20,000 assets, but its Backup and DR capability is in the custom-priced Enterprise tier, so Essential is not a price for recovery. HCP Terraform publishes pay-as-you-go with a $500 credit, with per-resource rates in IBM's pricing table.

Scenario 1: one application estate on one cloud

A team runs its main application on AWS with 20 core resources: a handful of VMs, two databases and a file system. At Arpio's published rates, Standard single-cloud covers it at $12,000 a year, equivalent to $1,000 a month. Standard includes one-click failover testing and RPOs as low as 15 minutes. If the team needed automated failback or real-time RPOs, those are listed in Premium at $36,000 a year single-cloud.

Scenario 2: the same team on two clouds

Now the estate spans AWS and Azure with 40 core resources. Standard's 25 core resources no longer cover it, so the published option is Premium multi-cloud at $54,000 a year. Above 50 core resources Arpio publishes no price: Enterprise, for 100 or more core resources, is custom. Estates between 51 and 99 core resources should ask Arpio directly which tier applies.

Scenario 3: backing up the data with Veeam SaaS

For the data layer, Veeam's published SaaS rate gives straight-line figures:

• 10 TB: $420 a month, $5,040 a year.
• 50 TB: $2,100 a month, $25,200 a year.
• 100 TB: $4,200 a month, $50,400 a year.

These cover data backup, which Veeam does in more depth than any other vendor in this ranking. They do not cover rebuilding the configuration, network, identity and DNS around the data, which Veeam's pages do not itemize.

What costs sit outside the vendor's price?

• Cloud provider costs. A recovery environment runs in your own accounts. Arpio states that it adds no storage charges of its own and that cloud provider costs apply.
• Standby infrastructure. Pilot light and warm standby strategies keep resources running in a second region at all times. See the lesson on cloud disaster recovery strategies.
• Support hours. Arpio includes 9x5 support and lists 24x7 as an add-on.
• Test time. Every recovery test uses people and cloud resources. Budget for at least one full test a year per critical application.

What can you not price without a sales call?

The recovery capabilities of Firefly (Enterprise), Commvault Cloud Rewind, Cohesity and ControlMonkey (Pro and Enterprise) are not publicly priced. Cloud Rewind is also listed on the AWS, Azure and Google Cloud marketplaces. StackGuardian publishes a free tier for codification and prices enterprise plans on request. ControlMonkey's free resilience assessment, for up to 50,000 cloud assets, is a way to measure the problem before asking for a quote.

How should you use these numbers?

As a floor and a comparison point, not as a budget. A published price tells you the order of magnitude and forces the question every quote should answer: which unit are we paying for, and which tier holds the recovery capability. Our lesson on how cloud disaster recovery tools are priced lists the units each vendor uses, and the buyer's checklist has the four pricing questions to send with every request for a quote.