Disaster Recovery's True Price Tag: Understanding RPO/RTO Costs

RPO and RTO targets are financial commitments, not just compliance checkboxes, and their true costs often emerge only on cloud bills. This analysis reveals why warm standby active-passive deployments cost 60-70% as much as active-active, and exposes how cross-region data replication fees become the largest cost driver—making full protection often more cost-effective than expected.