--- title: Azure Site Recovery Reviews meta\_title: 'Azure Site Recovery Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 39 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Azure Site Recovery works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.7 review\_count: 39 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Data Recovery url: https://www.g2.com/categories/data-recovery --- # Azure Site Recovery Reviews & Product Details Recovery plans are simple to create through the Azure management portal, where they are stored. The plans can be as simple or as advanced as your business requirements demand, including the execution of custom Windows PowerShell scripts and pauses for manual interventions. * * * Seller [Microsoft](https://www.g2.com/sellers/microsoft) Discussions [Azure Site Recovery Community](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-site-recovery/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-site-recovery/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Zerto](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Zerto") Zerto 4.7/5(75) ](https://www.g2.com/products/zerto/reviews) [ ![Datto SIRIS](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Datto SIRIS") Datto SIRIS 4.6/5(294) ](https://www.g2.com/products/kaseya-datto-siris/reviews) [ ![Rubrik](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rubrik") Rubrik 4.5/5(287) ](https://www.g2.com/products/rubrik/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-site-recovery/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 39 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Pawan K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Pawan K.") PK Pawan K. Bigdata Platform Architect at HCL Technologies Limited Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/28/2021 "Azure Site Recovery" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Azure Site Recovery? Azure site recovery provides protection entire production site with automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Site Recovery? It does not provide assessment options to users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Azure Site Recovery: IT is excellent tool for DR and data availability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Site Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? A nice benefit for data backup and restoration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/6/2022 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Hospital & Health Care](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Hospital & Health Care") UH Verified User in Hospital & Health Care Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/28/2021 "Efficient and User Friendly" 5/5 What do you like best about Azure Site Recovery? How user-friendly the site is to navigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Site Recovery? Site tends to freeze up it seems like before submitting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Azure Site Recovery: Color change Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Site Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? Our company uses it to submit any issues we have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite KW Kathryn W. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/9/2021 "Azure Site Recovery ensures that our comprehensive data is protected" 5/5 What do you like best about Azure Site Recovery? Creating a complex data infrastructure is easy to achieve with Azure data Recovery, which maintains security at all times so that you can work with multiple connections between different types of services without the information becoming fragile at any time. This means that there is no way for data to be affected by any type of malware or external software that is not related to or allowed by the company. Azure Site Recovery creates replicas of virtual machines that are used in other regions of the company with amazing speed, and adds all the information to the physical server being used. This means that the data is unalterable by third parties, and because it is so secure, different data models can be tested that are consistent for the job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Site Recovery? There have been no problems since the beginning of our experience with Azure data Recovery. The only negative point is that the platform does not support the protection of virtual machines whose disk is Docker, as the platform interprets this as an invalid scenario. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Azure Site Recovery: Azure Site Recovery is recommended to companies of any kind who wish to create restorations against disasters that have occurred at some point in the company's history and that led to data loss. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Site Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? It is excellent that Azure Site Recovery can support several infrastructure models to work with data both personally and in groups, and that its artificial intelligence ensures that there will be no errors sharing files of any kind that are kept private. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sheahan K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sheahan K.") SK Sheahan K. Senior System Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/25/2020 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Good Service for hybrid and DraaS" 5/5 What do you like best about Azure Site Recovery? DraaS and VMWare Support, Faster the failover, lower cost than VMWare cloud, Hyper-V Hypervisor running in background for Good Virtualization environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Site Recovery? Limited Hypervisor Support other than Microsoft and VMWare. Need support for Citrix and KVM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Azure Site Recovery: Good Service, Instead of expensive Vmware Cloud. Hyper-V and VMWare Support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Site Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? DraaS and Hybrid Hypervisor Implementation, Cost comparing to others, Easy to Deploy, Agentless Migration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Retail](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Retail") UR Verified User in Retail Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/7/2020 "That’s a great tool for any kind of cloud-related work. I really recommend it." 5/5 What do you like best about Azure Site Recovery? I love hiwneasy it was to understand and get up to speed using Azure Site Recovery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Site Recovery? I wish it could provide more options in the compression format. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Site Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? Managing the cloud for a business is not a straight forward process, but with Azure Site Recovery they made it simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Aleksander K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Aleksander K.") AK Aleksander K. System & Software Architect Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/13/2019 "A pretty simple way to implement VM Recovery " 4.5/5 What do you like best about Azure Site Recovery? With a couple of clicks the protection of the VM can be setup to another region in Microsoft Azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Site Recovery? For the time being there is no way to script the setup of the protection of the VM (replication between regions). It must be done manually using UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Azure Site Recovery: Make attention when setting up and choose your previously created resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Site Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? The Azure Site Recovery allows to my company’s SaaS solution to be available in case of the primary region becomes unavailable. Therefore it’s business critical tool for our software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Girish S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Girish S.") GS Girish S. Azure Systems Engineer (Cloud Consultant) Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/11/2019 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Giving us zero downtime, and saving a lot of money" 5/5 Validated ReviewerSource: Organic AV Artem V. Cloud Architect Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/20/2018 "After failover, we decided to stay in Azure" 5/5 What do you like best about Azure Site Recovery? Implementation of Site Recovery let`s you one great thing, try your on-premise services, running in Azure. After we executed test failover, we were excited with speed and smoothness of Azure environment so we decided to retire outdated hardware and stayed in Azure. Solution was implemented in Hyper-V server and didn`t took long to be configured appropriately, so migration was transparent to our users. The only difference they noticed was increased speed of applications. According to documentation solution could be used with VMware and AWS virtual machines as well as with physical servers, which is also cool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Site Recovery? heavy network load during initial synchronization, we don`t have much bandwidth, so it was sufficient when only delta was sent to Azure, but network was very slow when we started Site Recovery for the first time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Azure Site Recovery: Pay attention on setting up recovery plans, if machines are started in wrong order, your environment can become unusable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Site Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? Easy migration to Azure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite VR Victor R. DevOps Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/10/2018 "Keeps your infrastructure live, even after disaster" 5/5 What do you like best about Azure Site Recovery? Site Recovery provides new level of resiliency of your physical servers and virtual machines, it orchestrates replication and provides failover options in case of outage. You can chose between on-premises data center or Azure as secondary location for your workloads. solution is not so hard to implement, Microsoft also provides all required tools for capacity planning, so you can perform assessment of your infrastructure, to determine if you have enough network bandwidth to handle replication process. Support of Hyper-V and VMWare hypervisors as well as Azure virtual machines that could be replicated to another subscription. Also ASR has some support for AWS EC2 instances. Abbility to perform test failover without puttiong your actual servers down, it is also useful if you need to quickly create a copy of your production environment for testing purposes and destroy it, when testing completes. Comfortable and reasonable pricing for such kind of solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Site Recovery? AWS EC2 is supported as primary location, but it will work only one-way, so you will not be able to fail back. Useful for migration from AWS but not for additional resiliency. Failing back from Azure can utilize a lot of outbound traffic, and can increase your mothly costs for Azure. VMWare configuration is complex and requires additional server to be deployed on-premises Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Azure Site Recovery: Experienced staff can configure solution, that end users will even not see any difference after failover Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Site Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? Disaster Recovery and temporary testing environments for critical production systems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Insurance](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Insurance") UI Verified User in Insurance Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/20/2018 "NO ISSUES WITH IMPLEMENTING!" 5/5 What do you like best about Azure Site Recovery? My workload was relatively small so this tool worked wonderfully. It does not require a lot of Investments of time or energy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Site Recovery? It is expensive and I have ran across an issue with quoting clients accurately due to the cost of restoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Site Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? How can I recover any sites that have been lost due to updates or just not accessible with very little issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Azure Site Recovery? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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