What is Azure Site Recovery?
Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is a DRaaS offered by Microsoft in Azure for use in cloud and hybrid cloud architectures.
A near-constant data replication process ensures that the copies are synchronised. The application-consistent snapshot feature in Azure Site Recovery ensures that data is in a usable state after failover. The service enables customers to use Azure as a disaster recovery solution on a pay-as-you-go model without having to invest in additional infrastructure.
What is DRaaS?
Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) is a category of cloud computing used to protect an application or data from a natural or human disaster or service disruption in one place by enabling a full recovery in the cloud.
What is Disaster Recovery?
Disaster recovery is a company's method of regaining access and functionality to its IT infrastructure after events such as a natural disaster, cyberattack or even business disruption related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
What are the benefits of Azure Site Recovery?
Azure Site Recovery offers ease of deployment, cost-effectiveness and reliability. Implement replication, failover and recovery processes through Site Recovery to help keep your applications running during planned and unplanned outages.
What is the difference between Azure backup and site recovery?
Azure backup is a cloud-based backup solution that helps protect your data from loss or failure. Azure Site recovery is a disaster recovery solution that helps restore data and applications if the primary Azure data centre goes down. Azure Backup can also be used to restore your data to any of these locations.
About Azure Recovery
Simple to deploy
As a fully integrated solution, Azure Site Recovery is automatically updated with new Azure features as they are released.
Minimise recovery issues by sequencing the order of multi-tier applications running on multiple virtual machines. Maintain compliance by testing your disaster recovery plan without affecting your live environment. And keep applications available during outages with automatic recovery from on-premises to Azure or Azure to another Azure region.
Industry-leading solution
Azure Site Recovery is a disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) solution and Microsoft has been recognised as a leader in DRaaS based on the perfection of their vision and ability to implement by Gartner in the 2019 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service.
Reduce infrastructure costs
Reduce the cost of deploying, monitoring, patching and maintaining on-premises disaster recovery infrastructure by eliminating the need to build or maintain an expensive secondary data centre.
Plus, you only pay for the computing resources you need to support your applications in Azure.
Minimise downtime with reliable recovery
Scale coverage to as many business-critical applications as you need, backed by Azure service availability and support. Recover your latest data quickly with Site Recovery.
What does Azure Site Recovery cost?
The cost of using Azure Site Recovery depends on your needs. For example, you can use Azure Site Recovery to protect your entire data centre, or you can use it to protect only certain parts.
It's also available as a subscription model, making it affordable for businesses of all sizes.
Prices vary depending on your needs, but expect pricing from 39.- dkk. to 399.- dkk. per user per month.