# Do Small AWS Projects Need Disaster Recovery Plans?

**URL:** <https://awshq.com/t/do-small-aws-projects-need-disaster-recovery-plans/107>\
**Category:** Getting started with AWS\
**Created:** [January 26, 2026, 1:19am UTC](https://awshq.com/t/do-small-aws-projects-need-disaster-recovery-plans/107 "2026-01-26T01:19:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Martha](https://awshq.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Martha](https://awshq.com/u/Martha)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 1:19am UTC](https://awshq.com/t/do-small-aws-projects-need-disaster-recovery-plans/107/1 "2026-01-26T01:19:52Z")

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Disaster recovery is often seen as enterprise-only. At what scale does it become necessary? Can simple backups and snapshots provide enough protection, or do outages expose risks even for small applications?

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**Author:** ![Nomad](https://awshq.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@Nomad](https://awshq.com/u/Nomad)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 4:31am UTC](https://awshq.com/t/do-small-aws-projects-need-disaster-recovery-plans/107/2 "2026-01-26T04:31:48Z")

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Disaster recovery is necessary for projects that under go a lot of damages, like revenue loss, or trust loss, when downtime occurs. However, for most small projects regular backups and snapshots are enough.