Azure Site Recovery vs Datto ALTO comparison

Microsoft and datto are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category. Microsoft is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.0, while datto is ranked #10. Microsoft holds a 24.0% mindshare in DRS, compared to datto’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of datto users who would recommend it.

Azure Site Recovery

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92% willing to recommend

Datto ALTO

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery

Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Datto ALTO

Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service

10th

Average Rating

9.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category, the mindshare of Azure Site Recovery is 24.0%, down from 24.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Datto ALTO is 0.7%, down from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Disaster Recovery as a Service

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RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

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

First of all, we initially faced a challenge as Azure Site Recovery was not supporting shared disk options on SQL clusters with VMs, which are important for a Windows cluster mode. Additionally, the setup is quite easy, only requiring the creation of a vault. Its time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes.

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Duncan_Goodwin

Owner at Oxford Network Solutions, Inc

Easy to scale, reliable, reasonably price, extremely simple to use, and manage

We are a reseller and primarily use Datto ALTO for disaster recovery It is extremely simple to use, set up, and manage. They do a good job of it. The interface is very easy. It stayed the same for a long time, which makes it easy to set up and easy to work with. Technical support was superior…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Azure Site Recovery's automated file synchronization was a game-changer in managing legacy systems."

"It is a very stable product and very scalable."

"What I love about Azure Site Recovery is its simplicity for basic configurations."

"Our primary use case is for disaster recovery and business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR)."

"We use the tool for business continuity purposes."

"It’s native to Azure and does exactly what it’s designed to do—recover one site to another without creating all the VMs on that site. This helps reduce costs on the secondary site."

"Azure Site Recovery is an easy-to-use and fairly stable solution for disaster recovery."

"The setup is quite easy, just requiring the creation of a vault."

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"It stayed the same for a long time, which makes it easy to set up and easy to work with."

Cons

"The system did go down a couple of times, which impacted our operations. For stability, I would rate it a seven out of ten."

"The tool should improve synchronization."

"Currently, Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options. Moreover, it does not support services like AppConfig or App Services."

"The primary area for improvement in Azure Site Recovery is its pricing."

"I would like to see more security features."

"I conveyed the feedback to the agent, suggesting an increase in the agent count in our VNS in the USA. I also addressed notification concerns, as some issues didn't trigger alerts during a recent call."

"It could include more of a backup and recovery."

"Could have more integration with other platforms."

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"Technical support was superior when it was owned independently."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"They have a license to pay."

"The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."

"The tool is expensive. What is expensive to me might not be expensive to you. As I mentioned, we seek ways to reduce our costs. If the price goes down, that would be great. I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."

"Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."

"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."

"Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product."

"It should have more straightforward billing. The billing was what got funky. It was really cheap. We would pay based on the usage. We paid around $225 a month for site-to-site replication."

"I'm not sure about the Azure Site Recovery pricing, but my organization gets monthly bills from providers."

"If you have a small server, it's approximately $100 per month."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

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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?

The pricing of Azure Site Recovery is around a four out of ten, being somewhat cost-effective. Microsoft frequently restructures their pricing, causing us to adjust packages and subscriptions, whic...

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What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?

There is room for improvement in the release of patches, such as ensuring they are properly managed to avoid outages. The support help desk needs to improve escalation procedures. Azure ( /products...

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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.

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Datto ALTO is a small一but powerful一business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) solution built for MSPs to minimize downtime and to efficiently prevent data loss for their small business customers.

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Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace

Datapac, Dynamic Business Technologies, SAX Technology Advisors

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