AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS)
Amazon Web Services
Paid
Near-zero - continuous sync, minutes to cut over
Agent
Enterprise estates
Workload P2C V2C C2C
What it is good at
Same engine as MGN but with point-in-time recovery and failback - use it when you need a rollback path to the source after cutover.
Where it falls down
Costs from day one (no 90-day free period).
Capabilities
- Changed-block tracking / incremental sync
- Non-disruptive test migration
- Rollback / failback after cutover
- Encryption in flight
- API / CLI automation
Cost and licensing
- Cost category
- Paid — Commercial licence required.
- Indicative price
- About US$0.028 per source server-hour plus storage
- Licence model
- Consumption meter per replicating source server-hour, plus staging EBS and snapshots.
- How to license it
- Enable in the AWS console; billed to the account. No commitment.
- Lifecycle
- Current
- Vendor page
- https://aws.amazon.com/disaster-recovery/
Pricing and licensing last reviewed 2026-09-18. Indicative only - confirm with the vendor.
Supported sources
- Physical server - Windows
- Physical server - Linux
- VMware vSphere / ESXi (vCenter)
- Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows Server)
- Microsoft Azure (IaaS)
- Google Cloud (Compute Engine)
Supported targets
- Amazon Web Services (EC2)