An Azure native disaster recovery service. Previously known as Microsoft Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager.
it ended up working by disabling the firewall on the VM's i was trying to backup (I'm sure there is a list of ports or something i could have opened or something, but this was just a proof of concept). Also and equally important I ran windows updates a few times on the client VM's as well as the ARS appliance. I was using fresh builds of server 2022 and as was the ARS appliance, and they needed to be fully patched before i started having success replicating.