Azure Disaster Recovery as a Service — DRaaS
A disaster recovery plan that has never been tested is not a plan — it is a hope. 75% of organisations that experience a major outage without tested DR lose critical data or suffer extended downtime that damages revenue and reputation. Opsio's Azure DRaaS delivers automated replication, tested failover, and SLA-backed recovery so your business survives infrastructure failures, ransomware, and regional outages.
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What is Azure Disaster Recovery as a Service?
Azure Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is a managed offering in which a provider continuously replicates, orchestrates, and tests the recovery of workloads on behalf of a customer, using Azure Site Recovery as the primary replication and failover engine alongside Azure Backup, Azure Traffic Manager, and geo-redundant storage to meet defined recovery objectives. Standard scope covers four to six core responsibilities: continuous asynchronous replication of virtual machines, physical servers, and on-premises VMware or Hyper-V workloads to a secondary Azure region; automated failover and failback orchestration triggered by health thresholds or manual declaration; recovery plan creation and scheduling of regular non-disruptive test failovers; RPO and RTO monitoring against contractual targets, commonly RPO under 15 minutes and RTO under one hour for Tier-1 workloads; ransomware-resilient snapshot retention using Azure Backup vault soft-delete and immutable policies; and compliance alignment with NIS2, DORA, and ISO 22301 business continuity frameworks. Azure Site Recovery replication costs are typically billed per protected instance, with Microsoft list pricing starting near 25 USD per instance per month before storage and egress, though total managed DRaaS engagements from providers vary materially based on workload count and SLA tier. Leading vendors active in this space include Microsoft native services, Zerto, Veeam, Commvault, and Carbonite, each offering differing levels of orchestration depth and multi-cloud coverage. Opsio, a Microsoft Partner with 50-plus certified engineers and a 24/7 NOC operating from Karlstad and an ISO 27001-certified Bangalore delivery centre, delivers Azure DRaaS under a 99.9 percent uptime SLA with Nordic enterprise and mid-market clients, combining tested recovery playbooks with hands-on failover validation drawn from more than 3,000 cloud projects since 2022.
Survive Any Outage With Tested Azure Disaster Recovery
Most disaster recovery plans are written once, filed away, and never tested. When an actual disaster strikes — datacenter failure, ransomware encryption, or Azure regional outage — organisations discover that their replication was misconfigured, their recovery procedures are outdated, and their actual RTO is 10x longer than documented. The cost of this discovery is catastrophic: extended downtime averaging $5,600 per minute for enterprise systems, data loss, regulatory penalties, and customer trust that takes years to rebuild. Opsio's Azure DRaaS eliminates the gap between documented plans and actual capability. We deploy Azure Site Recovery for continuous replication of VMs, databases, and application tiers to secondary Azure regions. Recovery plans are automated with sequenced failover steps, pre- and post-scripts, and manual approval gates for critical decisions. Most importantly, we test failover quarterly — actually executing the recovery plan in a sandboxed environment to verify that applications come up correctly, data is consistent, and recovery time meets your RTO targets.
Our DRaaS solution covers the full business continuity lifecycle: risk assessment and BIA (business impact analysis), RPO/RTO definition per application tier, replication architecture design, automated recovery plan implementation, regular testing, and ongoing monitoring of replication health. We support Azure-to-Azure DR, on-premises-to-Azure DR via Azure Site Recovery, and hybrid scenarios with Azure Arc integration. Featured reading from our knowledge base: What Is a Hot Site in Disaster Recovery?, What Is Disaster Recovery in Cloud Computing?, and What Is RTO and Why Is It Critical for Disaster Recovery?. Related Opsio services: Disaster Recovery Service Provider, and Cloud Disaster Recovery & DRaaS — Tested Plans That Work When It Counts.
Service Deliverables
Azure Site Recovery
Continuous replication of Azure VMs, Hyper-V VMs, VMware VMs, and physical servers to secondary Azure regions. Application-consistent snapshots every 15 minutes with crash-consistent snapshots every 5 minutes for sub-15-minute RPO.
Automated Recovery Plans
Sequenced failover orchestration with application dependency awareness. Pre- and post-failover scripts for DNS updates, load balancer reconfiguration, and application health verification. One-click failover for rapid activation during actual disasters.
Database DR
Azure SQL geo-replication, Cosmos DB multi-region writes, and PostgreSQL/MySQL read replicas for database-tier disaster recovery. Transaction-consistent failover with automated connection string updates for minimal application impact.
DR Testing & Validation
Quarterly test failovers in isolated network environments that do not affect production. Full application stack validation including database consistency, API functionality, and performance benchmarking. Test results documented for compliance and BCP auditors.
Hybrid & Multi-Cloud DR
On-premises to Azure DR using Azure Site Recovery with Azure Arc. Multi-cloud DR strategies for organisations with workloads across Azure and AWS. Unified monitoring and recovery orchestration regardless of source infrastructure.
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