Azure Site Recovery vs N2W comparison

Microsoft and N2WS are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Additionally, 92% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of N2WS users who would recommend it.

Azure Site Recovery

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92% willing to recommend

N2W

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Azure Site Recovery and N2W based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Disaster Recovery (DR) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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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

Azure Site Recovery is cost-effective, time-saving, and reliable, optimizing virtual machine processes and offering an alternative to secondary data centers.

Sentiment score

2.2

<p>N2WS Backup & Recovery users saved time and money, improved efficiency, reduced downtime, and achieved better data protection and ROI.</p>

Azure Site Recovery, while being pricier than some providers, has a sufficient service level to justify costs.

Jenny Ng

Client Relationship Manager at Infomag

Azure Site Recovery is time-saving, and its features allow us to automate processes and save resources.

RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

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In my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing, I have seen a return on investment as there are definitely fewer employees required to manage the backups, and there is definitely a major time save due to the single pane of glass.

NicholasCappuccino

Sr. Manager Data Protection at Epsilon

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.4

Microsoft's Azure Site Recovery support is knowledgeable but inconsistent, with mixed reviews on response times and communication efficiency.

Sentiment score

4.1

N2W's customer service is praised for promptness, expertise, and proactive problem-solving, making them a valued partner for users.

During a global outage that affected our operations, there was no apology or in-depth follow-up from Microsoft.

reviewer2698704

Chief Technology Officer at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

Microsoft support could be improved as it rates only a five out of ten, with slow response times and a preference for email over phone communication even in severity B cases.

Ashadeep Parida

IT Manager at NTT DATA

We primarily rely on our Cloud Support Partner for support.

RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

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Their support is amazing. They get back to you in a timely manner and work with you.

NicholasCappuccino

Sr. Manager Data Protection at Epsilon

We would rate the customer support of N2W a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10, as they are very easily accessible, friendly, and absolutely knowledgeable.

Adebayo Ogunleye

Director of Information Technology & Customer Success at Maplewave

Customer support for N2W is excellent, as they are able to answer quickly.

Sathish Devasenapathy

Director, Cloud Infrastructure and Systems Operations at d1g1t Inc.

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.7

Azure Site Recovery is scalable, excelling in cloud migration and disaster recovery for businesses, despite regional scalability variations.

Sentiment score

3.8

N2W effectively manages AWS accounts and instances, ensuring seamless scaling and reliable backup without performance issues for growing needs.

I would rate the scalability of Azure Site Recovery as a nine out of ten.

reviewer2698704

Chief Technology Officer at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

Scalability is provided because they are offering 99.95% availability.

Ashadeep Parida

IT Manager at NTT DATA

Azure Site Recovery is a very scalable product and service mechanism.

Jenny Ng

Client Relationship Manager at Infomag

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.7

Azure Site Recovery is highly rated for stability and scalability, frequently scoring between seven and ten by users.

Sentiment score

5.4

N2W is highly stable, with no downtime, exceptional cloud resource use, and consistent nine out of ten ratings.

The system did go down a couple of times, which impacted our operations.

reviewer2698704

Chief Technology Officer at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

I would rate the stability of Azure Site Recovery at eight to nine out of ten.

RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

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Room For Improvement

Azure Site Recovery needs better integration, deployment, stability, security, and support, with improved logging, pricing, and platform compatibility.

N2W requires UI, documentation, and functionality upgrades with enhanced automation, multicloud support, and comprehensive AWS integration.

If their agent version is mismatched and the health status is critical, you will not be able to perform your Azure Site Recovery.

Ashadeep Parida

IT Manager at NTT DATA

There is room for improvement in the release of patches, such as ensuring they are properly managed to avoid outages.

Jenny Ng

Client Relationship Manager at Infomag

Currently, Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options.

RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

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Adding an 'auto-delete after X days' option to manual backups, similar to scheduled policies, would be a fantastic addition for cost management and general housekeeping.

reviewer2757345

Cloud Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

An automated account enrollment or bulk import feature integrated with AWS Organizations or Control Tower would save significant time and reduce administrative overhead.

reviewer2772105

VP, Solutions Architecture at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Improved disaster recovery options and expanded multicloud support are two areas where N2WS has already made significant advancements in the latest version.

George Philippakos

Cloud Manager at St. John's University

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Setup Cost

Azure Site Recovery offers cost-effective DR solutions despite complex billing, with average monthly site-to-site replication costs at $225.

Enterprise buyers appreciate N2W's competitive pricing, flexibility, and ROI, with easy AWS Marketplace purchases and praised usability.

It was not the expensive part of our costs.

reviewer2698704

Chief Technology Officer at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

A major advantage is that you do not want to pay any more for huge costs to build a DR site.

Ashadeep Parida

IT Manager at NTT DATA

The pricing of Azure Site Recovery is around a four out of ten, being somewhat cost-effective.

Jenny Ng

Client Relationship Manager at Infomag

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Pricing can increase as backup volumes grow, so it is important to balance the level of protection with cost-optimization strategies such as tiering snapshots to S3 or Glacier.

MayanaKhan

Platform Engineer at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

While N2W is a paid product, the cost is easily justified by the significant reduction in engineering hours spent on managing and troubleshooting custom backup scripts.

reviewer2757345

Cloud Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I believe N2WS offers a highly competitive pricing model, delivering excellent value.

George Philippakos

Cloud Manager at St. John's University

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Valuable Features

Azure Site Recovery is praised for seamless failover, ease of use, compatibility, but may be costly for smaller clients.

Users value ease of use, speed, cost efficiency, centralized management, and intuitive interfaces in backup and recovery features.

Its time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes.

RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

Azure provides a 99.99% SLA for their uptime, ensuring that even during outages due to patch releases, there is no data loss, merely hindered accessibility.

Jenny Ng

Client Relationship Manager at Infomag

The most valuable features of Azure Site Recovery are its ease of use and speed of recovery.

reviewer2698704

Chief Technology Officer at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

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Lifecycle management and automated transitions to lower-cost storage tiers have been instrumental in optimizing costs while meeting compliance and retention requirements.

George Philippakos

Cloud Manager at St. John's University

We had a ransomware event in 2023, and we were able to recover every machine with minimal effort.

reviewer2753805

IT Operations Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The ability to define backup schedules, retention periods, and disaster recovery policies and have them apply automatically based on resource tags scales perfectly with our environment and enforces a consistent data protection strategy across the organization.

reviewer2757345

Cloud Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery as a Service (2nd)

N2W

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

5.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (8th), Cloud Backup (6th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (7th)

Featured Reviews

Ashadeep Parida

IT Manager at NTT DATA

Long-term user praises cost savings and reliability of disaster recovery solutions

There is only one thing to note: the agent has to be up-to-date when SCCM or any third-party tools are doing patching activities. If their agent version is mismatched and the health status is critical, you will not be able to perform your Azure Site Recovery. Recently, I worked with a mass issue related to Recovery Services Vault, and the VM support engineers are taking a lot of time to extend support to the customer. When you raise a call, they wait too long, and even if you request an engineer to set up a call for severity B cases, they are not ready to communicate over the phone, preferring email instead.

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reviewer2757345

Cloud Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Automation has transformed our backup process and validated our disaster recovery strategy

While the product is excellent, there are a couple of areas for potential improvement. The process for version upgrades, which sometimes requires deploying a new instance, could be streamlined to allow for a more seamless in-place update. It would be extremely useful to have the ability to set a retention period on manual backups. Occasionally, we take a manual snapshot before a major deployment, and currently, these can be forgotten, leading to unnecessary storage costs. Adding an 'auto-delete after X days' option to manual backups, similar to scheduled policies, would be a fantastic addition for cost management and general housekeeping. The EKS backup module should be a great feature, and it would have been a useful functionality to have for cluster backup management.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

12%

University

Government

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	14

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	10
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	9

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure Site Recovery?

Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Site Recovery?

A major advantage is that you do not want to pay any more for huge costs to build a DR site. It is very flexible and will save your cost.

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What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?

The flexibility of Azure Site Recovery regarding integration with different IT environments is limited; it is purely an Azure platform service for business continuity, not meant for integration wit...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for N2WS Backup & Recovery?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is smooth, as I have not faced any issues while spinning up the instance from the marketplace, and the documentation is very comprehensive.

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What needs improvement with N2WS Backup & Recovery?

The EKS environment solution could be improved.

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What is your primary use case for N2WS Backup & Recovery?

Backup and snapshots. Before implementing a dedicated cloud-native solution, our primary pain point was the fragmented and manual nature of our data protection strategy. We were relying on a patchw...

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Comparisons

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 17% of the time

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Compared 10% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Azure Site Recovery

January 2026

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N2W

January 2026

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Also Known As

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N2WS Backup & Recovery, N2WS Cloud Protection Manager, N2W Backup & Recovery for AWS Free Trial/BYOL

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Overview

Help your business to keep doing business - even during major IT outages. Azure Site Recovery offers ease of deployment, cost effectiveness, and dependability. Deploy replication, failover, and recovery processes through Site Recovery to help keep your applications running during planned and unplanned outages. Site Recovery is a native disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), and Microsoft been recognized as a leader in DRaaS based on completeness of vision and ability to execute by Gartner in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service.

Microsoft

N2W offers a cloud-native backup and recovery platform tailored for AWS and Azure environments, delivering secure and rapid data protection.

N2W enables IT teams to effortlessly manage backup and restore processes within AWS and Azure environments. By leveraging policy-based management, users gain full control over rapid, secure recovery across regions and accounts. Designed to scale with workloads of any size, N2W ensures business continuity through features like immutable ransomware-protected backups and smart data lifecycle management. Hosted directly in the cloud account, it simplifies the protection and recovery of mission-critical applications.

What are N2W's key features?

Immutable Backups: Protects against ransomware with unchangeable data versions
Fast Recovery: Ensures rapid data restoration within seconds
Policy-Based Management: Automates backup processes for efficiency
Cost Savings: Optimizes storage with smart data lifecycle management
Granular Reporting: Offers detailed compliance-ready audit trails
Seamless Archival: Supports low-cost storage integration including Wasabi

What benefits should users consider?

Ease of Use: Simple management for quick data recovery
Automation: Reduces manual intervention with automated policies
Cost Optimization: Manages storage efficiently to save costs
Business Continuity: Ensures resilience with flexible scheduling

Organizations across sectors use N2W for automated backup and disaster recovery of AWS resources like EC2 instances and RDS databases. It's employed to manage schedules, streamline backups in production settings, and rely on S3 for storage, providing a robust data protection approach.

N2WS

Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace

Deloitte, NASA, Johnson & Johnson, Dyson, Deuthsche Bahn, Skechers, Allan Gray, Hewlett Packard, St. John's University, City of Oakland

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