Azure Site Recovery Pricing Plans Comparison

Hi Anandha Chandrasekaran,

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Here’s how Azure Site Recovery works differently for customer-owned sites compared to Azure.

Azure Site Recovery for customer-owned sites (

• You can replicate your on-premises servers/VMs to another customer-owned site and you are responsible for maintaining the disaster recovery infrastructure, including hardware, storage, and networking.
• After the 31-day free trial, the service costs approximately USD 16 per instance per month. This option is ideal if you already have a secondary site and want ASR to manage failover and failback processes.

Azure Site Recovery to Azure (S2A)

• Your on-premises servers or VMs are copied directly into Azure’s cloud. The replicated VMs/servers are stored directly in Microsoft Azure, with Azure providing the disaster recovery infrastructure no need to maintain your own secondary data center.
• After the 31-day free trial, the service costs approximately USD 25 per instance per month. This option is best if you prefer a cloud-based disaster recovery solution without managing physical hardware.

Refer document for Pricing - Site Recovery: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/site-recovery/?utm_source

• As Alan Kinane mentioned ASR incur egress charges when failing back
• When you fail back your replicated VMs from Azure to your on-premises site, egress (data transfer out of Azure) charges do apply because data is leaving the Azure data center.
• Azure compresses the replicated data before transfer, which reduces the amount of data and helps lower costs
• Reprotection is when you set up replication back to Azure after failing back to on-premises.
• Ingress (data coming into Azure) is free, so no egress charges occur during reprotection to Azure.

Find more questions on ASR https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-faq#pricing

Reference documents for more inputs if needed:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-overview?utm_source

https://docs.azure.cn/en-us/site-recovery/failover-failback-overview-modernized

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-cost?utm_source

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