Disaster recovery

Generally Available: Azure Site Recovery Support for Azure ARC-enabled Windows VMWare/Physical servers

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) now supports disaster recovery for Azure ARC-enabled Windows VMWare virtual machines and on-premise physical servers.

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports AWS Graviton-based source servers

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now supports disaster recovery for AWS Graviton-based (arm64) source servers. You can now protect and recover your Graviton workloads with the same simple, reliable DRS experience you already use for x86 workloads.

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery introduces Recovery Plans for orchestrated application recovery

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now offers Recovery Plans, a capability that automates the sequential launch of multi-server applications during recovery and drills.

Generally Available: BYON (Bring Your Own NIC) in Azure Site Recovery

Azure Site Recovery now lets you use and attach an existing, pre-provisioned Network Interface Card (NIC) in the target region for test-failover and failover in the Azure-to-Azure scenario.

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now preserves UEFI boot mode for Linux servers

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now preserves UEFI boot mode when recovering Linux source servers that boot with UEFI firmware. Previously, DRS launched these Linux servers in legacy BIOS mode, which could require extra configuration after recovery.

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is now available in six additional AWS Regions

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) is now available in six additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Bangkok), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Canada West (Calgary), and Mexico (Central).

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports Amazon EBS volume initialization rate

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now supports the Amazon EBS volume initialization rate, helping recovered volumes reach full performance faster during drills and recoveries.

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery reduces recovery time for AWS-to-AWS workloads

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now recovers your AWS-based workloads faster. For source servers running on Amazon EC2, DRS can now skip preparation steps that these workloads no longer need, reducing recovery time by up to 65% for Windows and up to 40% for Linux.

Generally Available: Support 5x churn in Azure Site Recovery

Azure Site Recovery now supports up to 5x churn (500 MB/s per VM). This major enhancement empowers customers to confidently run high IOPS workloads with Azure Site Recovery, ensuring robust disaster recovery for even the most demanding applications like databases, big data and…

Generally Available: Azure Site Recovery support for Linux Azure VMs with NVMe disk controllers.

Azure Site Recovery now supports replication and disaster recovery for Linux Azure Virtual Machines running on NVMe-enabled Generation 2 VM families, such as the Da/Ea/Fa v6-series and Ebsv5/Ebdsv5 in the Azure-to-Azure scenario.

Generally Available: Azure Site Recovery Support for Performance Plus Managed Disks

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) now supports replication of virtual machines using Performance Plus enabled managed disks.

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) is now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, enabling organizations with data sovereignty requirements to protect their mission-critical workloads with disaster recovery on AWS.

Generally Available: Azure Site Recovery support for Windows Azure VMs with NVMe disk controllers

Azure Site Recovery now supports replication and disaster recovery for Windows Azure Virtual Machines running on NVMe-enabled Generation 2 VM families, such as the Da/Ea/Fa v6-series, Ddsv6, Edsv6 and Ebsv5/Ebdsv5 in the Azure-to-Azure scenario.

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports IPv6

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now supports IPv6 for both data replication and control plane connections.