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AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery vs HPE Zerto Software comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 21, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.2
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery enhances ROI by lowering costs, improving recovery times, and enhancing security and operational efficiency.
Sentiment score
7.0
HPE Zerto Software enhances efficiency, reduces costs, minimizes downtime, and improves disaster recovery, offering significant financial benefits.
However, with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Service being a native service, integration is seamless, highlighting the return on investment.
Assistant Programmer at Mahadis
We no longer have to schedule employees on weekends since the system automatically triggers alerts, allowing engineers to respond as needed.
Senior Java Developer at J.P. Morgan
There are also fewer employees needed now because of the good structured planning for AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, so fewer site reliability engineers are required.
Senior Software Engineer at Thomson Reuters
Before, it was a huge cost. It was several thousand dollars to do a DR test, whereas now, I click a button.
CTO at Erisa Administrative Services, Inc.
It saves us a lot of time and gives us the ability to perform other DR plans for other systems.
System Engineer at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's not only in the cloud; it's DR as a service, which means that the recovery operations are performed by a dedicated team specializing in this area.
Founder & CEO at Itix Cyber Ltd
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.9
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery boasts high satisfaction with rapid, effective support and strong management relations despite a lacking ticket system.
Sentiment score
7.5
HPE Zerto Software's support is mostly satisfactory, with prompt assistance and knowledgeable staff, despite occasional response delays.
In case of any issue, they are ready to provide support within the defined SLA timeline.
Assistant Programmer at Mahadis
I would rate the customer support an eight, as it often takes a lot of time to engage and get a solution.
Senior Java Developer at J.P. Morgan
has definitely solved many issues we have faced
Senior Software Engineer at Thomson Reuters
I have never had an issue that was not resolved, and I have never been in a situation where they did not respond.
Sr. Systems Engineer at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would give them a rating of ten because it represents the highest level of support based on the technical knowledge of the support team, response time, and effectiveness of the provided resolutions.
Disaster Recovery Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
When I open a ticket, I usually get a call within an hour or two.
Systems Engineering Manager at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is highly scalable, supporting seamless replication, flexibility, and integration, ideal for diverse environments and growth.
Sentiment score
7.4
HPE Zerto Software efficiently scales to meet demands, handling thousands of virtual machines across environments with easy license expansion.
We can expand it to multiple data centers or different areas such as EMEA and APAC.
Senior Java Developer at J.P. Morgan
The scalability is quite good and we were able to scale this service to many of the services that our company uses.
Senior Software Engineer at Thomson Reuters
I would rate it a ten out of ten for scalability.
Head of IT at TWM SOLICITORS LLP
Customers need to follow good engineering practices for optimal product use.
Tech Lead, Storage and Data Protection at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
By adding more hosts and installing VRAs on each, tasks can be efficiently managed.
Senior Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is praised for reliability, with rare issues; users rate its stability 8-9 out of 10.
Sentiment score
8.0
HPE Zerto Software is reliable and stable, with seamless updates and minor issues swiftly addressed across various environments.
It is very good and very reliable.
DevOps Engineer at DivVerse Labs
AWS is not difficult, but the cost associated with replicating data to another region can be significant.
Assistant Programmer at Mahadis
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is stable.
Senior Java Developer at J.P. Morgan
I promptly delete the malfunctioning elements and set them up again to resume replication, ensuring stability.
Technical Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The ease of use was so good with Zerto that they were able to migrate things much quicker.
Inside Sales Representative at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It is very reliable.
Systems Engineering Manager at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Room For Improvement

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery requires automation, UI improvements, and better integration to enhance user experience and disaster preparedness.
HPE Zerto users seek better Hyper-V support, cloud integration, flexible licensing, enhanced backups, cybersecurity, and improved technical support.
Our RPO improved from approximately three to four hours to less than one minute.
Software Engineer at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
This would detail user activity directly in the ACL console for easier debugging and auditing.
DevOps Engineer at DivVerse Labs
It would be beneficial to get some insights when a disaster happens, including identification and probable solutions to ensure effective recovery.
Senior Java Developer at J.P. Morgan
If I have 350 objects that I am protecting, I would like Zerto to be able to fire them up in one order, rather than having to manually bring them up in a sequence.
Enterprise data management supervisor at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
If the host has a lot of VMs on it, there may not always be enough time to relocate all of the VMs from a protection group standpoint to other hosts before the replication appliance that Zerto uses to manage that powers itself down.
Systems Engineering Manager at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
If HPE Zerto Software has it built-in where we're going to vCenter and you click on it, it will build the VPG and indicate configuration requirements, that would be amazing.
Senior Converged Infrastructure Engineer at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Setup Cost

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery pricing is fair yet costly, with usage-based costs necessitating strategic planning for effective management.
HPE Zerto Software offers competitive per-VM pricing, praised for rapid recovery, ease of use, and straightforward scalability.
There is definitely a scope of improvement, and for year-end licensing, they should definitely improve the cost.
Senior Software Engineer at Thomson Reuters
If you want a good-quality tool that is robust and does a good job for you, you have to pay a higher price to get that, and Zerto is no different.
IT Manager at American Pioneer Federal Credit Union
However, it can become quite expensive when you start looking at the number of workloads you have in the environment and what you would like to do.
Cloud and Infrastructure Services Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Zerto is easier to set up and use, and it's less expensive.
Professional Services Engineer at US Signal
 

Valuable Features

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery offers cost-effective, scalable database replication, enhancing disaster recovery with automation, security, and real-time monitoring.
HPE Zerto Software offers robust features for disaster recovery, fast recovery, automation, ease of use, and ransomware protection.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery supports a wide range of source environments, including VMware, Hyper-V, physical servers, and other cloud providers, making it versatile for different IT infrastructures.
Senior Software Engineer at Thomson Reuters
The low RPO at a seconds-level replication and a fast recovery with a low RTO provide the most cost-effective way, paying mostly for storage until failover.
Software Engineer at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Service is a native service, integration is seamless.
Assistant Programmer at Mahadis
Zerto offers excellent technical support with responsive and helpful experts.
Assistant Manager-Networks at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
If we were attacked, I could revert to a backup from five seconds before the attack, and no one would know we were attacked.
Senior Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
The replication time and the minor amount of time it takes to sync a new server outside of any of my huge 40-terabyte boxes is ridiculously quick.
Sr. Systems Engineer at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
20th
Ranking in Cloud Backup
12th
Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
11th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
HPE Zerto Software
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
2nd
Ranking in Cloud Backup
2nd
Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
1st
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
346
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Migration (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category, the mindshare of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is 2.3%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Zerto Software is 7.3%, down from 10.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Disaster Recovery (DR) Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
HPE Zerto Software7.3%
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery2.3%
Other90.4%
Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
 

Featured Reviews

Harsh Shrivastava - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Thomson Reuters
Rapid recovery has minimized downtime and protects critical data during frequent outages
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery can be improved through regular drills to ensure that all resources are properly prepared for disasters with scheduled drills. This includes testing and understanding failback, which is crucial for a comprehensive disaster recovery plan. Monitoring and health checks are important to continuously monitor the health of the ongoing replication using the AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery console or programmatically. This helps identify any servers that may require attention and ensures that the application is functioning correctly. Creating a CloudFormation template that can create the necessary network resources on demand is useful for disaster recovery. There should be documentation and best practices guidance so that teams can follow best practices for implementation and maintenance of disaster recovery from on-premises using AWS. This includes a written recovery plan as well as regularly updating it with findings and required changes. Within the scope of improvements, there are many possibilities, but it is currently providing some great results. The scope of improvements can include monitoring and health checks as well as documentation with best practices for documentations, and conducting regular drills.
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Tech Lead, Storage and Data Protection at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Helps simulate a DR failover commit and perform DR tests much faster
Near-synchronous replication has some trade-offs. With near-synchronous replication, we get almost all the information up to date at the destination site, but the trade-off is that sometimes that could take a lot of CPU cycles, network bandwidth, and troubleshooting. A few versions back with Zerto, there were some bugs in the software that were causing constant replication back and forth that was driving a lot of network bandwidth utilization over the network, and we did not know why until we found out it was a bug. It depends on what your business or application really requires. If it requires near-synchronous, you have to enable that. However, if Zerto can make it easier or have a smaller footprint by sending larger payloads or having network compression, it will be a little bit easier. On wide area networks and local area networks, that would definitely be preferred. We have had some issues running Linux virtual machines on the new version. There were some issues with virtual replication adapters on Cisco UCS hosts running VMware vCenter 8. There were several things we had to do with installation and getting the replication adapters to work. Integration with Keycloak for Active Directory authentication using new Linux VMs was challenging, but it is now functioning well.
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Comparison Review

it_user159711 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Nov 9, 2014
VMware SRM vs. Veeam vs. Zerto
Disaster recovery planning is something that seems challenging for all businesses. Virtualization in addition to its operational flexibility, and cost reduction benefits, has helped companies improve their DR posture. Virtualization has made it easier to move machines from production to…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Healthcare Company
7%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise11
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business90
Midsize Enterprise89
Large Enterprise198
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about CloudEndure Disaster Recovery?
CloudEndure Disaster Recovery is a fairly stable solution.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudEndure Disaster Recovery?
The pricing has been fine, and regarding the setup cost as well, it is quite fine. There is definitely a scope of improvement, and for year-end licensing, they should definitely improve the cost.
What needs improvement with CloudEndure Disaster Recovery?
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery can be improved through regular drills to ensure that all resources are properly prepared for disasters with scheduled drills. This includes testing and understanding ...
What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?
Ik fluister:VM Host Oracle en DataGuard hebben we per toeval vervangen door Zerto :-) tijdens de Zerto implementatie en VPG werden de Host Data in write-ack Block-Level gerepliceerd. Qua licentie 1...
What do you like most about Zerto?
Its ability to roll back if the VM or the server that you are recovering does not come up right is also valuable. You have the ability to roll back a few seconds or a few minutes. The rollback feat...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?
From a pricing standpoint, HPE Zerto Software was reasonably priced initially compared to SRM, but now it is almost on par, if not better.
 

Also Known As

CloudEndure Disaster Recovery
Zerto Virtual Replication
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Agio, Cloud Nation, Limelight Networks
United Airlines, HCA, XPO Logistics, TaxSlayer, McKesson, Insight Global, American Airlines, Tencate, Aaron’s, Grey’s County, Kingston Technologies
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