Azure Backup
Protect your data during outages and cyberattacks with a centralized backup service.
OVERVIEW
Enterprise-grade data protection
- Monitor, operate, govern, and plan backups at scale with resiliency capabilities in Azure.
- Protect your backups from ransomware attacks with air-gapped vaults and ensure cyber resilience with key features like immutability, soft-delete, and multiuser authorization (MUA). Backup data is always encrypted at-rest and in-transit with a choice to bring your own encryption keys.
- Safeguard a diverse range of traditional and cloud-native workloads, including data-transfer intensive and mission-critical databases like SQL Server, SAP HANA, PostgreSQL, and MySQL; storage solutions like Azure blobs, file shares, and others; and containerized applications running in Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters.
- Eliminate extra costs of additional backup infrastructure and overhead for scaling and managing storage. Gain insights on your backup estate with Azure Backup reports.
FEATURES
Protect your assets from ransomware
At-scale management
Manage and monitor all your infrastructure data from a unified control plane in Azure.
Built-in security and compliance
Store data in Recovery Services vaults to isolate your backups from production systems, with that data always encrypted at rest with an option of customer-managed keys. Monitor controls that strengthen cyber resilience and help meet key regulatory requirements like identity protection, data retention, and secure recovery.
Data loss prevention
Control and prevent unauthorized access with Azure role-based access control and MUA. Ensure backups are always recoverable against any destructive actions with the Immutable vault setting which provides built-in security alerts that notify you of any critical operations happening in your vaults.
Highly durable storage
Store your backup data across different Azure regions and availability zones to ensure business continuity. Maintain six copies of data across two paired Azure regions with geo-redundant storage (GRS).
Restore anywhere
Recover data during outages or as needed using cross-region restore and recover data to a different subscription with cross-subscription restore.
Optimized long-term retention
Automatically move your long-term retention data to archive-tier storage and save on costs.
Security
Embedded security and compliance
34,000
Full-time equivalent engineers dedicated to security initiatives at Microsoft.
15,000
Partners with specialized security expertise.
>100
Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
Pricing
Flexible pricing to simplify data protection
The pricing model for Azure Backup has two components:
- Protected instances: This is the primary billing unit for Azure Backup. Pay for the number of instances that are protected with the Azure backup service.
- Storage: Choose between locally redundant storage (LRS) or geo-redundant storage (GRS) for your backup vault. The net price depends on the amount of data stored with the service.
These two components appear as separate line items on your monthly Azure bill.
CUSTOMER STORIES
Trusted by customers of all sizes
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Azure Backup supports Azure Virtual Machines; SQL, SAP-HANA, and SAP-ASE databases; Azure Kubernetes Services and on-premises VMware machines. See the full list of supported resources.
- A recovery services vault is a storage entity in Azure that houses data, including data copies and configuration information, for virtual machines, workloads, servers, and workstations.
- Yes, Azure Backup provides role-based access control, including built-in contributor, operator, and reader roles, to control cloud backup management operations.
- Both Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery support backup and disaster recovery. Backup is specifically designed to back up and restore data, while Site Recovery is designed to perform seamless application disaster recovery.
- Azure Backup helps you protect your data against ransomware with air-gapped vaults and features like immutability, soft-delete, and MUA.
- Both Recovery Services and Backup vaults are available in most Azure regions. Look below for a full list of Azure regions and their availability zone support.
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