Europe DRaaS Market
Europe DRaaS Market by Service Type (Backup & Restore, Real-time Replication, Data Protection, and Professional Services), Deployment Mode (Public Cloud and Private Cloud), Organization Size, Vertical, and Country - Forecast to 2032
OVERVIEW
Source: Secondary Research, Interviews with Experts, MarketsandMarkets Analysis
The Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) market in Europe is projected to reach USD 9.54 billion by 2032 from USD 3.37 billion in 2025, at a CAGR of 16.0%. The market's growth is strongly driven by stricter operational resilience requirements being enforced, higher risks of cyber disruptions, and ongoing pressures on companies to update or modernize their current, fragmented disaster recovery systems. Organizations are accelerating the adoption of disaster recovery solutions through a shift in preference for sovereign (or native) recovery, located in-region, improved speed of failover across multiple zones, and adopting more consumption-based DR models that provide audit readiness while also eliminating the costs associated with maintaining idle/drained infrastructure.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
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BY COUNTRYFrance is emerging as Europe’s fastest-growing DRaaS market, driven by sovereign cloud adoption, regulated resilience mandates, and enterprise recovery modernization.
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BY SERVICE TYPEBy service type, the backup & restore segment is expected to grow at the fastest rate of 28.3% during the forecast period.
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BY DEPLOYMENT MODEPublic cloud, by deployment mode, is expected to lead the Europe DRaaS market with a value of USD 6,725.0 million by 2032.
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BY VERTICALBy vertical, the retail & consumer goods segment is projected to register the highest CAGR of 17.5% during the forecast period.
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BY ORGANIZATION SIZEThe SMEs segment is expected to exhibit a significant growth rate as ransomware exposure, lean IT teams, and limited capital budgets accelerate demand for cloud-delivered DRaaS, automated failover, and recovery testing that removes the need for dedicated secondary infrastructure.
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COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE - KEY PLAYERSAWS, Acronis International GmbH, Proact Group, M247, and 11:11 Systems are among the major players in the DRaaS market in Europe, collaborating with enterprises to deliver cloud-based replication, automated failover, isolated recovery environments, and compliance-ready resilience across hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.
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COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE - STARTUPS/SMEsGigaCloud, Node4, and Darz have distinguished themselves among startups and SMEs due to their robust product portfolios and effective business strategies.
The DRaaS market in Europe is advancing as enterprises address supervisory stress testing, third-party ICT risk controls, and the need to standardize recovery across fragmented national infrastructures. Organizations are shifting from country-specific DR setups to centrally governed recovery services that support regulated continuity across subsidiaries and service providers without expanding physical disaster recovery footprints.
TRENDS & DISRUPTIONS IMPACTING CUSTOMERS' CUSTOMERS
In the DRaaS market in Europe, end-customer expectations are being reshaped by stricter resilience supervision, data protection enforcement, and growing reliance on always-on digital services. Healthcare & life sciences, BFSI, and retail & consumer goods users increasingly demand uninterrupted access, secure data handling, and consistent service performance. These expectations are pushing enterprises to adopt governed, in-region disaster recovery models that support verifiable continuity and operational trust.
Source: Secondary Research, Interviews with Experts, MarketsandMarkets Analysis
MARKET DYNAMICS
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Mandatory operational resilience compliance across critical sectors
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Escalating ransomware targeting European enterprises and public services
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Persistent data sovereignty and jurisdictional sensitivity
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Limited confidence in recovery execution during cross-border incidents
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Demand for sovereign, compliance-ready DRaaS offerings
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Rising adoption of hybrid cloud recovery for VMware-based estates
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Standardizing recovery across complex, hybrid IT estates
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Coordinating recovery across multi-provider and MSP-driven environments
Source: Secondary Research, Interviews with Experts, MarketsandMarkets Analysis
Driver: Mandatory operational resilience compliance across critical sectors
The primary driver of the European market is regulatory enforcement relating to operational resilience. Regulatory bodies are requiring companies in the BFSI, healthcare, and life sciences sectors to demonstrate their ability to recover from a disaster, conduct regular testing of their systems, and manage the risks associated with third-party vendors and service providers. This regulatory environment is leading to the rapid development of new DRaaS platforms that offer an off-the-shelf, standardized, and regulator-compliant approach across multiple jurisdictions, replacing the current highly fragmented and unmanaged on-premises disaster recovery solutions.
Restraint: Persistent data sovereignty and jurisdictional sensitivity
DRaaS adoption in Europe is held back by concerns about data residency and jurisdictional control. Companies are still cautious about where their recovery data will be stored, who will have access to that data, and what national laws will govern the execution of their recovery. Companies that operate under regulations (e.g., BFSI, healthcare & life sciences) will have these concerns strongly amplified if DRaaS providers cannot offer definitive information on their in-country recovery governance.
Opportunity: Demand for sovereign, compliance-ready DRaaS offerings
The European market presents a significant opportunity for DRaaS companies to gain business through the combination of sovereign cloud principles and Design for Compliance. More businesses are looking for DR-related services, which include auditability, allowing controlled access, and executing in-region. By combining DRaaS with a regulated operating service, rather than positioning it as a technical component, DRaaS providers can create opportunities for adoption within the public sector and regulated industries.
Challenge: Standardizing recovery across complex, hybrid IT estates
Delivering successful recovery solutions across Europe’s numerous customized hybrid environments (including legacy infrastructures, private clouds, and several public cloud environments) remains one of the most significant challenges for vendors and solutions providers in the market. Furthermore, many organisations operate localized versions specific to each country, making it much more complicated to orchestrate and test recovery solutions. To meet this challenge, vendors can adopt a deeper level of integration between their various platforms, standardized runbooks, and localized operating support models.
EUROPE DRAAS MARKET: COMMERCIAL USE CASES ACROSS INDUSTRIES
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MTB Bank and Microsoft strengthen resilience through cloud-based disaster recovery | Migration of 330 critical servers | Secure cross-border disaster recovery enablement | Continuous daily cloud data backups | Elimination of on-premises DR dependency | Faster recovery readiness amid power and connectivity disruptions |
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Proximity and IBM enable scalable, high-availability disaster recovery | 80% lower disaster recovery costs | Recovery up to 50% faster during outages | Near-instant failover for real-time logistics workloads | Support for 50,000+ daily deliveries without disruption | Pay-as-you-go DR model improving cost efficiency | Real-time data replication for IBM i applications |
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Premium Choice and M247 deliver sub-minute disaster recovery readiness | Recovery in as little as 12 minutes with only 10 seconds of data loss | Sub-minute RTO and RPO performance | Elimination of tape-based, manual backups | Dedicated DR environment hosted in Tier 3 UK data center | Real-time data replication using Zerto |
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University of Louisville transitioned from tape-based backup to a DRaaS model within 24 hours | Transitioned from tape-based backup to DRaaS within 24 hours | Eliminated manual and time-intensive DR testing processes | Reduced disaster recovery operating costs by shifting from CapEx to OpEx | Enabled rapid recovery using Veeam Cloud Connect for VMware workloads |
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MSP InfoStream ensured disaster recovery confidence with Axcient Cloud Backup | Full speed data download and upload – no throttling | 24 hours to 100% recovery | 0% of data lost after ransomware | Sleep soundly with BDR confidence| Proactive cloud backups in preparation for a hurricane disaster |
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MARKET ECOSYSTEM
Sovereign-aligned clouds, tailored data transfer and restoration solutions, and local companies comprise the European DRaaS ecosystem. Cloud vendors provide in-region hosting that meets compliance requirements. Data Movers create an environment where users can recover quickly after a Ransomware attack. DRaaS Suppliers are responsible for managing and auditing DRaaS services to meet the needs of regulated industries and cross-border operations in Europe.
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MARKET SEGMENTS
Source: Secondary Research, Interviews with Experts, MarketsandMarkets Analysis
Europe Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) Market, By Service Type
By service type, real-time replication represents the second largest segment in the Disaster Recovery as a Service market in Europe, as enterprises prioritize recovery precision over periodic backup models. Regulated industries increasingly rely on continuous data synchronization to support cross-site continuity, controlled recovery execution, and service stability across nationally segmented infrastructure and European cloud zones.
Europe Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) Market, By Deployment Mode
By deployment mode, the private cloud segment is expected to witness the fastest growth in the Disaster Recovery as a Service market in Europe , particularly as enterprises seek to align their recovery strategies with their Data Sovereignty and Regulatory goals, as well as their Resilience Expectations. Private cloud deployments provide organizations with control over where their recovery occurs, giving them control of their failover environments and ensuring compliance with jurisdiction-specific governance. This model supports Regulated Workloads that run on Hybrid or Legacy IT infrastructures.
Europe Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) Market, By Vertical
By vertical, the BFSI segment is estimated to hold the largest share of the Disaster Recovery as a Service market in Europe, as regulators place sustained emphasis on service continuity and recoverability. Banks and insurers operate payment, trading, and digital channels that cannot tolerate disruption. DRaaS supports controlled recovery execution, routine testing, and documented resilience across complex, multi-entity technology environments.
Europe Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) Market, By Organization Size
By organization size, large enterprises hold the largest share of the Disaster Recovery as a Service market in Europe due to their complex structures from operating in multiple regions and the requirement of testing resilience by regulatory authorities. The need for large enterprises to coordinate their recovery efforts in several different countries (with multiple vendors) under different supervisory jurisdictions creates a need for centralized control over the entire recovery process from beginning to end, which is achieved through DRaaS that enables global control, jurisdiction-aware execution, and compliant evidence at scale.
REGION
UK to account for largest share of Europe Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) market during forecast period
The UK is estimated to hold the largest share of the DRaaS market in Europe due to its enforceable operational resilience deadlines, significant third-party outsourcing of financial services, and high reliance on managed service providers to execute disaster recovery. The demand for managed DR testing, guaranteed failover, and supplier-led DR governance has been sustained as large banks, insurers, and fintechs have consolidated their legacy disaster recovery assets into DRaaS contracts.
EUROPE DRAAS MARKET: COMPANY EVALUATION MATRIX
Acronis International GmbH leads the Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) market in Europe due to its ability to provide comprehensive cyber protection and disaster recovery capabilities, as well as its penetration within Managed Service Providers (MSPs) across Europe, with a strong regional cloud offering. Databarracks, on the other hand, has established itself as a significant contender through its managed resilience, ensured recovery testing, and the partnerships it has developed within UK and European regulated enterprises.
Source: Secondary Research, Interviews with Experts, MarketsandMarkets Analysis
KEY MARKET PLAYERS
- AWS (US)
- Microsoft (US)
- Vmware (US)
- IBM (US)
- 11:11 Systems (US)
- Acronis International GmbH (Switzerland)
- Cable & Wireless Communications (UK)
- Proact Group (Sweden)
- M247 (UK)
- Ekco (Ireland)
- Claranet (Netherlands)
- Daisy (UK)
- Databarracks (UK)
- Darz (Germany)
- Node4 (England)
- GigaCloud (Poland)
MARKET SCOPE
| REPORT METRIC | DETAILS |
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| Market Size in 2024 (Value) | USD 2,775.3 Million |
| Market Forecast in 2032 (Value) | USD 9,538.3 Million |
| Growth Rate | CAGR of 16.0% from 2025 to 2032 |
| Years Considered | 2020-2032 |
| Base Year | 2024 |
| Forecast Period | 2025-2032 |
| Units Considered | Value (USD Million) |
| Report Coverage | Revenue forecast, company ranking, competitive landscape, growth factors, and trends |
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| Countries Covered | UK, Germany, France, Rest of Europe |
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DELIVERED CUSTOMIZATIONS
We have successfully delivered the following deep-dive customizations:
| CLIENT REQUEST | CUSTOMIZATION DELIVERED | VALUE ADDS |
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| Leading BFSI Firm (Europe) | Sovereign-aligned DRaaS assessment: Mapping providers offering in-country recovery execution, regulator-validated testing, third-party risk controls, and jurisdiction-specific audit documentation across EU operating entities | Identified compliance-driven white spaces, sharpened regulatory messaging, and positioned differentiated recovery governance against pan-European incumbents |
| Global Healthcare Provider (UK) | Competitive benchmarking: Comparison of disaster recovery practices, recovery timelines, and testing approaches across peer European healthcare organizations | Clarified relative resilience gaps, sharpened recovery priorities, and supported more informed DRaaS strategy decisions for healthcare environments |
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
- October 2025 : Acronis appointed Frux Technologies as its official cloud aggregator in India to expand distribution of its integrated cyber protection, cloud backup, and disaster recovery solutions to enterprises, SMBs, and managed service providers. Frux will leverage its partner ecosystem and domain expertise to drive local enablement, market reach, and scalable resilience offerings nationwide.
- September 2025 : Acronis expanded its partnership with A1 Digital into Germany, extending advanced backup and disaster recovery services to enterprises. The collaboration strengthens regionally compliant DR capabilities, addressing ransomware risk, data loss, and business continuity requirements through secure, cloud-based recovery solutions tailored to Germany’s regulatory standards.
- September 2024 : Proact partnered with Arctic Wolf to elevate managed cybersecurity services across the Nordics and wider EMEA. This is directly relevant for DRaaS demand because incident response, containment, and recovery assurance are increasingly bought together, and the partnership strengthens end-to-end cyber incident handling that accelerates safe restoration and reduces repeat-impact risk.
- June 2024 : Ekco partnered with watchTowr to add attack surface management into its managed security portfolio. While positioned as security capability expansion, the partnership directly supports DRaaS buyers by reducing pre-incident exposure, shortening time-to-detect exploitable weaknesses, and improving recovery readiness by limiting blast radius and repeat compromise during restore cycles.
- June 2024 : Ekco formed a strategic alliance with Tines to automate security operations workflows. For DR and cyber recovery programs, this improves incident triage and orchestration, accelerates containment decisions that gate failover or restore, and reduces analyst workload through automation-driven playbooks, supporting faster progression from detection to validated recovery execution.
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Methodology
This research study involved extensive secondary sources, directories, and paid databases to identify and collect information useful for this technical, market-oriented, and commercial study of the Europe Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) Market. In-depth interviews were conducted with various primary respondents, including key industry participants, subject matter experts, C-level executives of key market players, and industry consultants, to obtain and verify critical qualitative and quantitative information and assess the market prospects. The following figure highlights the market research methodology in developing this report on the Europe Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) Market.
Secondary Research
The market size of companies offering Europe DRaaS was based on the secondary data available through paid and unpaid sources and by analyzing the product portfolios of major companies in the ecosystem and rating the companies based on their product capabilities and business strategies. In the secondary research process, various sources were referred to for identifying and collecting information for the study. The secondary sources included annual reports, press releases, investor presentations of companies, product data sheets, white papers, journals, certified publications, articles from recognized authors, government websites, directories, and databases.
Secondary research was mainly used to obtain key information about the industry’s supply chain, the total pool of key players, market classification and segmentation according to industry trends to the bottom-most level, regional markets, and key developments from both market- and technology-oriented perspectives, all of which were further validated by primary sources.
Primary Research
In the primary research process, various primary sources from both the supply and demand sides were interviewed to obtain qualitative and quantitative information on the market. The primary sources from the supply side included various industry experts, including Chief Experience Officers (CXOs); Vice Presidents (VPs); directors from business development, marketing, and product development/innovation teams; and related key executives from Europe DRaaS vendors, industry associations, independent consultants, and key opinion leaders.
Primary interviews were conducted to gather insights, such as market statistics, the latest trends disrupting the market, new use cases implemented, data on revenue collected from products and services, market breakups, market size estimations, market forecasts, and data triangulation. Primary research also helped in understanding various trends related to technology, service type, deployment, and region. Stakeholders from the demand side, such as Chief Information Officers (CIOs), Chief Technology Officers (CTOs), Chief Security Officers (CSOs), the installation teams of governments/end users using Europe DRaaS, and digital initiatives project teams, were interviewed to understand the buyer’s perspective on suppliers, products, service providers, and their current use of solutions, which would affect the overall Europe Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) Market.
Market Size Estimation
Both top-down and bottom-up approaches were used to estimate and forecast the Europe Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) Market and other dependent submarkets. The bottom-up procedure was deployed to arrive at the overall market size using the revenues and offerings of the key companies in the market. With data triangulation methods and validation through primary interviews, this study determined and confirmed the exact value of the overall parent market size. The overall market size was then used in the top-down procedure to estimate the size of other individual markets via percentage splits of the market segments.
Key players in the market were identified through secondary research, and their revenue contributions in respective countries were determined through primary and secondary research.
This entire procedure included the study of the annual and financial reports of top market players and extensive interviews for key insights from industry leaders, such as Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), VPs, directors, and marketing executives.
All percentage splits and breakups were determined using secondary sources and verified through primary sources.
Data Triangulation
After arriving at the overall market size, the market was split into several segments and subsegments—using the market size estimation processes as explained above. Where applicable, data triangulation and market breakdown procedures were employed to complete the overall market engineering process and determine each market segment's and subsegment's exact statistics. The data was triangulated by studying various factors and trends from government agencies’ demand and supply sides.
Market Definition
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) refers to a cloud model that enables replicating enterprise data and applications on a third-party virtual or cloud environment to ensure business continuity during artificial or natural disasters. It is mainly facilitated by System Integrators (SIs) and Managed Service Providers (MSPs). DRaaS is based on three crucial aspects: disaster planning/management, business continuity, and backup.
Key Stakeholders
- Cloud service providers (CSPs)
- Colocation providers
- Technology service providers
- Data center managed service providers
- Government organizations
- Networking companies
- Consultants/consultancies/advisory firms
- Support and maintenance service providers
- Telecom service providers
- Information Technology (IT) infrastructure providers
- System Integrators (SIs)
- Regional associations
- Independent software vendors
- Value-added resellers and distributors
Report Objectives
- To describe and forecast the Europe Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) Market based on service types, deployment modes, organization size, verticals, and regions
- To strategically analyze the market subsegments with respect to individual growth trends, prospects, and contributions to the total Europe Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) market
- To provide detailed information related to the major factors influencing the growth of the Europe Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) market (drivers, restraints, opportunities, and challenges)
- To strategically analyze macro and micro markets with respect to growth trends, prospects, and their contributions to the overall Europe Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) market
- To analyze industry trends, patents & innovations, and pricing data related to the Europe Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) Market
- To analyze the impact of recession impact on service types, deployment modes, organization size, verticals, and region in the Europe Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
- To analyze the opportunities in the market for stakeholders and provide details of the competitive landscape for major players in the Europe Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
- To profile key players in the market and comprehensively analyze their market share/ranking and core competencies in the Europe Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
- To track and analyze competitive developments, such as mergers and acquisitions, new product developments, and partnerships and collaborations in the Europe Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) market
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