[technofiend]

Totally agree, but in 2016 that doesn't take much: spin up two instances in different AWS datacenters and fail between them and you have Disaster Recovery. Regularly operate in each datacenter and you have Sustained Resiliency. A small business probably won't have staff to maintain such a solution but surely this is a space for a nice niche startup?

[otterley]

> in 2016 that doesn't take much: spin up two instances in different AWS datacenters and fail between them and you have Disaster Recovery

Things that look simple on the surface are often not easy to implement in practice - especially when you're not starting with a green field.

[technofiend]

Why am I not starting with a greenfield? In my example I did mention a niche start up.

[LoSboccacc]

That won't work you'd need the whole datacwnter to comply with the security restriction you can't just have the data in a place where you don't know whom can access

[viraptor]

That's not true actually. You can be HIPAA compliant while storing data on AWS. https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-compliance/