Azure Site Recovery Enables Disaster Recovery to Azure

• Azure Site Recovery could help organizations use Azure as a disaster recovery site for on-premises workloads.
• Organizations can use Azure as a disaster recovery site to avoid investing in secondary data centers and redundant server hardware.
• The service is ending support for disaster recovery between on-premises sites and now focuses on disaster recovery to Azure.
• Storage and network charges for the service could be difficult to predict, particularly for failback operations.

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is a Microsoft-hosted subscription-based service that helps organizations use Azure infrastructure to establish disaster recovery (DR). It works between an on-premises site and Azure, two Azure regions, or one or more on-premises sites. However, the service is ending support for DR scenarios between on-premises sites to focus on Azure as the DR site. ASR is intended for use with physical servers and VMs running certain workloads, so organizations will need to do planning, testing, and deployment work to ensure the service will meet their requirements and perform as needed.