Keep a ready-to-run copy of your critical systems in the cloud, so ransomware, a fire or a failed server doesn’t take you down for days. We compare DRaaS providers and plans. Free to you.
Get a Free QuoteDisaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) is a cloud service that continuously copies your servers and data to a provider’s environment and lets you run them there if your own systems fail. Backup keeps copies of your data; DRaaS keeps your systems ready to start. The difference shows up after an incident: restoring from backup alone can take days, while a DRaaS failover can bring critical systems back in minutes to hours, depending on the plan.
Critical servers are copied to the provider’s cloud continuously or on a schedule.
When disaster strikes, systems start in the cloud and users reconnect.
Documented, tested recovery steps so it works when you need it.
RTO (recovery time objective) is how long a system can be down before it hurts the business. RPO (recovery point objective) is how much data you can afford to lose, measured in time: an RPO of 15 minutes means losing at most the last 15 minutes of work. Lower targets cost more, so set them system by system rather than for everything at once.
| Backup | DRaaS | |
|---|---|---|
| What’s protected | Copies of data | Full systems, ready to run |
| Typical recovery time | Hours to days | Minutes to hours |
| Where you recover | Your own hardware, once it’s available | The provider’s cloud |
| How it’s tested | Restore tests | Failover tests |
| Relative cost | Lower | Higher |
Most businesses need both. Backups with immutable copies protect against ransomware deleting your data; DRaaS keeps the business running while you recover.
Pricing usually depends on the number of protected servers or virtual machines, the storage they use, and the compute you reserve or use during a failover. Ask whether testing is included and what happens to cost during a real event.
Tell us which systems you run, where they live today and how long you could be without them. We compare DRaaS options against those targets and help plan the first test.
We’re vendor-neutral. Depending on your environment, options can include:
The provider compensates us, so our guidance is free to you — see how it works.
DRaaS (disaster recovery as a service) is a cloud service that replicates your servers and data to a provider and lets you run them there if your own systems fail.
Backups protect your data, but restoring everything onto new hardware can take days. DRaaS shortens that to minutes or hours for the systems you can’t be without.
At least once a year, and after major changes such as new systems or a move. An untested plan often fails in a real event.
Yes, when it keeps clean recovery points from before the attack and the recovery environment is isolated from your network.
Yes. The provider you select compensates us, so our comparison and sourcing cost you nothing.
Tell us which systems matter most and where they run today. We’ll compare DRaaS options against your recovery targets.
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