Disaster recovery strategies with Terraform

The total cost of unplanned outages has been rising exponentially each year. A 2016 study conducted by the Ponemon Institute stated that the mean total cost per minute of an unplanned outage was $8,851, a 32% increase since 2013, and a 81% increase since 2010. A 2022 study by EMA Research says that number is up to $12,900. These metrics showcase how crucial it is for organizations to have a solid and well-thought disaster recovery strategy in place in order to reduce downtime and data loss as much as possible once disaster strikes.

Ensuring business continuity and safeguarding mission-critical systems against unexpected failures can be time-consuming, expensive, and difficult to maintain, especially as systems scale. It is also not uncommon for disaster recovery (DR) solutions to cost enterprises anywhere from several hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars per year, creating significant strain on IT budgets within organizations.

However, setting up and maintaining DR infrastructure doesn't have to be so cumbersome nor costly. This is where leveraging infrastructure as code (IaC) within your DR plan comes into play.

This blog post showcases how HashiCorp Terraform can be used to effectively setup, test, and validate your DR environments in a cost-efficient, practical, and consistent manner by codifying the infrastructure provisioning process...

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