Open-source alternative  ·  Disaster Recovery

Replace AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery with Proxmox Backup Server + Ceph.

Self-hosted DR with Proxmox Backup Server for continuous replication and Ceph for distributed storage. Automated recovery testing and failover. No per-server DRS licensing fees.

You'd keep~R60 000 to ~R120 000/year

Current licence  ·  Disaster Recovery

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

~R60 000 – ~R120 000/yr

10-user estimate

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Proxmox Backup Server + Ceph

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R120 000/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Standard

R60 000/yr

R500/user/month

Per protected server

With Proxmox Backup Server + Ceph

Keep R60 000/yr

Enterprise

R120 000/yr

R1 000/user/month

Per protected server

With Proxmox Backup Server + Ceph

Keep R120 000/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery grows around 10% per year on average. Proxmox Backup Server + Ceph hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR53kR106kR159kR213kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R193kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.85M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

AWS Elastic Disaster RecoveryProxmox Backup Server + Ceph, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

Same category

Other disaster recovery migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

Migrate AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery.
Keep the money.

Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.