Azure Site Recovery Replicates Your VMs.
CloudTwin Resurrects Your Entire Business.
When Every Minute of Downtime Costs Thousands.
Azure Site Recovery only handles VM disk replication—leaving your PaaS services, IAM policies, network configurations, and cross-tenant recovery capabilities completely exposed. Transform your approach from partial VM recovery to complete business continuity.
Why Enterprise Organizations Choose Both Solutions
While ASR handles basic VM replication, modern businesses need comprehensive infrastructure resilience that goes far beyond disk-level recovery to protect entire cloud architectures.
Beyond VM-Only Recovery
Modern cloud architectures require PaaS, serverless, IAM, and network recovery—not just virtual machine disk replication
True Cross-Tenant Capability
Enterprise-grade ransomware recovery and M&A scenarios require cross-tenant failover that ASR simply cannot provide
Complete Infrastructure Automation
Native ARM/Bicep approach eliminates the complexity and errors of hypervisor-based replication with manual scripting
The True Cost of VM-Only Recovery
Azure Site Recovery's hypervisor-based approach leaves 60-80% of your cloud infrastructure unprotected, creating massive business continuity gaps that cost enterprises millions in extended downtime.
Competitive Capability Analysis
Understanding the fundamental architectural differences between VM-only replication and complete infrastructure resilience
| Capability | Azure Site Recovery (ASR) | CloudTwin |
|---|---|---|
| VM replication & failover | Integrates ASR VMs | |
| PaaS / serverless snapshot (App Service, Function, Cosmos DB, SQL MI) | Not covered | Captured & restored |
| IAM & Policy restore (RBAC, Azure Policy) | Manual scripts | Automatic, hashverified |
| Network & Route Tables, DNS zones | Partial (requires ARM templates) | 1-click restore |
| Cross tenant or subscription clone | Single tenant only | Any tenant / org |
| Declarative rollback & drift detection | Deployment Stacks "what if" | |
| RTO & RPO, including config | Costly continuous data only | Included, config + data |
| Sovereign region hosting (UAE ASR) | Data plane global | SaaS hosted = UAE Central |
| On-prem integration | (MABS) | Roadmap via Pulumi multi-cloud |
| Agent requirements | ASR Mobility agent on non-Azure VMs | 100 % agentless (Azure Resource Manager API) |
Where ASR Stops Short
Understanding the fundamental business limitations of VM-only disaster recovery in modern cloud architectures
VM-Only Architecture Limitation
Azure Site Recovery only replicates VM disks, leaving 60-80% of modern cloud infrastructure unprotected: App Services, Functions, Cosmos DB, AKS clusters, Key Vault secrets, and Logic Apps.
Business Impact: Hours-to-days of manual rebuilding
Single-Tenant Recovery Constraint
ASR cannot fail over into clean tenants, making it impossible to recover from ransomware attacks or execute M&A "day one" environment moves that require cross-organizational recovery.
Business Impact: Inability to recover from advanced threats
Manual Scripting Dependency
Network configurations, IAM policies, and identity management must be manually rebuilt using custom ARM/Bicep or Terraform scripts—creating error-prone, time-consuming recovery processes.
Business Impact: 10-50x longer recovery times
CloudTwin Advantage
Native Azure ARM architecture that delivers complete infrastructure resilience beyond VM-only limitations
Native ARM/Bicep Architecture
No hypervisor dependency or vSphere requirements. Pure Azure Resource Manager approach ensures zero API support lag and immediate access to newest Azure services.
Result: 100% cloud-native recovery capability
Complete Network Infrastructure Automation
Automatically restores VNets, NSGs, Route Tables, DNS zones, and network security configurations exactly as designed—no manual re-IP configuration or network architecture rebuilding.
Result: Minutes vs. hours-to-days for network recovery
Executive Risk Dashboard
Why C-suite executives are migrating from Azure Site Recovery to comprehensive infrastructure resilience platforms that protect entire business operations
Cost of Incomplete Recovery
ASR's VM-only approach requires expensive manual rebuilding of PaaS, IAM, and network infrastructure, creating massive hidden recovery costs
CloudTwin's automation eliminates 80% of recovery labor costs
Complete Infrastructure Protection
ASR leaves majority of cloud infrastructure unprotected, creating unacceptable business continuity gaps in modern architectures
Comprehensive risk mitigation across all Azure services
Operational Complexity Reduction
Eliminate error-prone ARM/Bicep template dependencies and manual network reconstruction that plague ASR implementations
Automated infrastructure-as-code recovery
Advanced Threat Recovery
ASR's single-tenant limitation makes ransomware recovery impossible, while CloudTwin enables clean environment restoration
Enterprise-grade ransomware recovery capability
Strategic Migration from Azure Site Recovery
Professional migration path that enhances your existing ASR investment while eliminating coverage gaps and operational complexity
Assess Current ASR Gaps
Comprehensive audit of your Azure environment to identify the 60-80% of infrastructure that ASR cannot protect, including PaaS services, IAM policies, and network configurations.
Complete visibility into recovery blind spots
Pilot CloudTwin Alongside ASR
Deploy CloudTwin in parallel with existing ASR infrastructure to prove comprehensive coverage without disrupting current VM replication processes.
Risk-free evaluation of complete infrastructure recovery
Full Migration Strategy
Systematic transition plan that leverages CloudTwin's ability to integrate ASR VMs while providing superior native ARM-based recovery for complete infrastructure.
Complete business continuity beyond VM-only limitations
ASR Migration Questions
Common questions about migrating from Azure Site Recovery to comprehensive infrastructure resilience
Stop Accepting 20-40% Infrastructure Coverage.Migrate to Complete Business Continuity.
See how CloudTwin's native ARM architecture delivers the comprehensive infrastructure resilience that Azure Site Recovery simply cannot provide for modern cloud environments.
Every day with incomplete coverage creates massive business risk.
See how CloudTwin eliminates the 60-80% infrastructure gaps that ASR cannot protect.