Recovery Tier 2 · ~30–60 min cold
Boot any backup as raw EBS. ~30–60 min cold.
The everyday recovery path — cold-boot any backup in the cloud and RDP in.
- Backup chunks assembled into a raw EBS volume — no conversion
- Attached to a pre-defined EC2 — you get RDP
- ~30–60 minutes from click to logged-in on a cold boot
- → ~5 minutes if you keep an Always-Ready warm standby
- Cheaper than Always-Ready — no warm state to keep
Cold-boot, on demand.
Instant Recovery is the middle path between Always-Ready (warm, ~5 min, flat fee) and Cloud Desktop (metered, pay-per-hour). It cold-boots on demand: the chunks reassemble into an EBS volume — the bulk of the ~30–60 min — and the EC2 itself boots within 60 seconds of EBS attach. Add an Always-Ready warm standby and the same machine is back in ~5 minutes.
Cold boot vs warm standby — shorter is better.
How it works
Chunks → EBS → AMI → EC2 → RDP.
Chunks reassemble into EBS
Your backup chunks are assembled into a raw EBS volume in AWS — the bulk of the ~30–60 min.
We register the AMI
The assembled volume is registered as a bootable machine image, ready to attach to an EC2.
EC2 boots in ~60 seconds
The pre-defined EC2 attaches the EBS and boots within 60 seconds of attach — the fast part.
You RDP in
Roughly 30–60 minutes from click to logged-in on a cold boot. Add an Always-Ready warm standby and the same machine is back in ~5 minutes.
How it differs from the others.
Always-Ready is warm and flat-rate for the machines that can never go down. Cloud Desktop is metered and pay-per-hour for test, forensic, and bridge work. Instant Recovery sits in the middle: on-demand cold boot for most servers, drawn from your tier credits.
| Always-Ready | Instant Recovery | Cloud Desktop | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to RDP | ~5 min | ~30–60 min cold | ~30–60 min cold |
| Cost model | $8–$65/mo per device | Tier credits | $0.20–$0.40/hr metered |
| When to use | Mission-critical | Most servers | Test / forensic / bridge |
Three recovery paths, one pricing decision.
When to use
Three scenarios where Instant Recovery is right.
Credits scale with tier — Standard includes credits per month, Pro adds more credits plus larger instance options, and Enterprise is custom.
Fast, but not warm-standby fast
A server that needs to be up fast but isn't worth a dedicated Always-Ready standby — Instant Recovery is the right speed-to-cost trade.
You don't know what fails next
You don't know which machine will fail next — Instant Recovery is on-demand for any backed-up machine, no setup needed.
Already on Standard or Pro
You're already on Standard or Pro — Instant Recovery is included via tier credits.
The everyday recovery path.
On-demand cold boot for any backed-up machine — included via tier credits on Standard and Pro.