Effective February 21, 2025, Microsoft has released a pricing calculator Excel-sheet for Azure Site Recovery (ASR). This calculator helps you estimate the total cost of ownership (TCO) for ASR scenarios. It provides a detailed cost breakdown of the different components involved in ASR for improved financial planning. This release is only for an Azure-to-Azure scenario, meaning you can calculate the costs for replicating your Azure to a secondary Azure environment as a live-backup.
Download the calculator Excel-Sheet: Microsoft Azure-Site-Recovery-Calculator for Azure-to-Azure
What is Azure Site Recovery (ASR)?
Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is a robust disaster recovery solution offering seamless replication and failover capabilities for virtual and physical machines. It helps organizations ensure business continuity by replicating workloads to a secondary location. ASR also provides automated recovery plans and testing capabilities, allowing you to validate your disaster recovery strategy without disrupting your production environment.
Key Features
- Seamless Replication and Failover: ASR provides continuous replication of workloads to a secondary location.
- Support for Virtual and Physical Machines: ASR supports a wide range of environments, including both virtual machines and physical servers.
- Automated Recovery Plans: ASR allows you to create and automate recovery plans, ensuring a structured and efficient recovery process.
- Testing Capabilities: You can test your disaster recovery strategy without disrupting your production environment.
- Cost Estimation with ASR Calculator: The new ASR calculator provides a detailed cost breakdown, helping you plan and budget effectively for disaster recovery.
- Data Compression: ASR compresses data before transmission, reducing network egress costs and ensuring efficient use of bandwidth.
- Integration with Azure Managed Disks: ASR integrates seamlessly with Azure Managed Disks, which are virtualized block-level storage volumes.
Licensing
The ASR calculator helps you understand the licensing details for Azure Site Recovery. Key components include:
- Protected Instance License Fee: Billed per protected instance, whether it’s a virtual machine or a physical server.
- Storage Cost: Includes replica storage, cache storage account cost, and storage transactional cost.
- Network Egress Cost: Charges for outbound data transfer during replication.
- Snapshot Cost: Costs associated with incremental snapshots and recovery points.
More Information
Announcement: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates?id=482319.
Learn about Azure to Azure disaster recovery costs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-cost.
Download the calculator Excel-Sheet: Microsoft Azure-Site-Recovery-Calculator for Azure-to-Azure
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