AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery review
A focused AWS recovery service with clear hourly pricing and separate traffic management.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is a paid disaster recovery service for replicating supported physical, virtual, cloud, and AWS workloads into AWS. It supports Windows and Linux applications, including environments using VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon EC2, Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, and SAP. It is best suited to AWS-centric teams that need recovery into AWS while retaining support for hybrid source infrastructure.
The published plan uses a single price of 0.028 USD per source server per hour. That plan includes continuous data replication, test launches, recovery launches, and point-in-time recovery. The service also integrates with Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, AWS Systems Manager, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon VPC, AWS IAM, and Amazon Route 53. AWS resources such as Amazon EBS and Amazon EC2, along with data transfer, are charged separately, so the hourly source-server rate is only one part of the overall recovery cost.
Its recovery features cover non-disruptive recovery drills, ordered server groups, launch management, post-launch actions, automated network configuration replication, and recovery into existing instances. Failback can return workloads to on-premises or other source infrastructure. During failover, traffic redirection is handled separately through DNS or another traffic-management method, and the category specification does not include failover orchestration. Choose AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery for AWS-based recovery, testing, point-in-time restoration, and hybrid failback. Teams seeking integrated traffic redirection and broader failover orchestration should consider an alternative.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Continuous block-level replication with point-in-time recovery
- Recovery plans support ordered server groups and recovery drills
- Failback supports on-premises and other source infrastructure
- Where it doesn't
- No free plan; pricing is charged per source server per hour
- Traffic redirection during failover requires DNS or another service
- AWS resource and data-transfer costs are billed separately
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