is site to site vpn required for Azure Site Recovery

Question

Dear Support,

i am planning to go with DR site at Azure site recovery.

I just want to replicate the hyper-v VMs on-premise to Azure site recovery so all VMs will be in off state in Azure so in this case for replication do i need VPN connection Site to Site?

Please adavise

Answer 1

Replication occurs over the Internet on port 443 so no VPN is required for replication.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/hyper-v-azure-architecture

Answer 2

Thanks for reply, so this 443 replication is already encrypted right by default