A European bank protected its top twenty applications and left the rest to chance — not because the risk was misjudged, but because standby compute made full coverage unaffordable. Every additional protected application added permanent infrastructure cost. Drills happened annually at best, never for tier two. And supervisors had started asking about the systems outside the plan. UPC DRaaS removed the standing compute cost: replication stays warm across the full estate, heavy compute bills only on activation or drill, payments on Active-Active Platinum, core systems on Gold, supporting systems on Silver rather than unprotected — and quarterly drills now cost only the compute they consume.
