How a small team moved from single-region risk to a simple active/passive multi-region setup without doubling complexity.
Multi-region can easily become a science project. This is what worked for a five-person platform team supporting a SaaS product.
We began with everything in one AWS region: RDS, EKS, S3, and a shared VPC.
Instead of cloning the entire stack, we:
```hcl module "vpc" { source = "./modules/vpc" region = var.region primary = var.is_primary } ```
/healthz endpoint.We didn’t solve every theoretical edge case, but we can now lose a region and recover in under an hour with a plan the team has actually rehearsed.
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