Azure Site Recovery
Azure Site Recovery is a hybrid recovery service for protecting virtual machines and physical servers.
What Azure Site Recovery is
Azure Site Recovery is a hybrid recovery service for protecting virtual machines and physical servers. Supported workloads include Azure VMs, VMware VMs, Hyper-V VMs, Windows physical servers and Linux physical servers. Recovery controls include failover orchestration, failback orchestration, test failover and recovery runbooks, with a listed recovery point objective of 0.5 minutes. The web service names two plans: Azure Site Recovery to customer owned sites and Azure Site Recovery to Azure. Each plan covers one protected instance, and neither has a listed price. The service is paid, offers a 31-day trial and has no free plan. Its hybrid deployment model matches the choice between customer-owned and Azure destinations. These options let teams plan recovery for supported workloads while testing failover and coordinating both directions of recovery. Azure Site Recovery was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States.
Good
- Supports Azure, VMware and Hyper-V VMs
- Covers Windows and Linux physical servers
- Failover and failback orchestration
- Test failover and recovery runbooks
- 0.5-minute RPO target
Watch out
- No free plan
- Only a 31-day trial is listed
- Each plan covers one protected instance
Who it suits
Organizations protecting supported virtual machines or physical servers across Azure and customer-owned environments. It suits recovery plans requiring orchestration, testing and runbooks.
Verdict
Azure Site Recovery provides coordinated recovery features for several virtual and physical workloads. Its two destination plans and hybrid model are clear, but the paid structure and per-instance plan scope matter when planning coverage.
Plans and prices
From Azure Site Recovery's own pricing page, checked 20 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Azure Site Recovery to customer owned sites | Priced on request | 1 protected instance |
| Azure Site Recovery to Azure | Priced on request | 1 protected instance |
The facts
Each one read from Azure Site Recovery's own pages, with the date it was checked.
The company
- Founded
- 1975checked 23 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Redmond, Washington, United Stateschecked 23 Sep 2026
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