Cloud Backup Services | Microsoft Azure

OVERVIEW

Help prevent ransomware attacks

Monitor, operate, govern, and optimize data protection at scale in a unified and consistent manner.

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Prevent accidental data loss and protect data against ransomware.

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Eliminate extra costs of additional backup infrastructure and overhead for scaling and managing storage.

Set up backup reports
Back up all your infrastructure, databases, and storage workloads with ease from a central location.

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FEATURES

Protect assets with ransomware prevention

Azure Business Continuity Center

Apply at-scale management, monitoring, and governance of business continuity solutions for Azure resources.

Soft delete

Prevent accidental data loss by retaining backups for 14 days after deletion.

Multiple-user authentication

Help protect data against ransomware attacks with an added layer of authorization for critical operations.

Customer-managed keys

Fully control how you protect and access your data that use 256-bit AES encryption.

Redundant storage

Ensure availability with zone- and geo-redundant storage and restore backups from a paired region at any time.

Private endpoints

Enable secure transfer of backups to Azure Backup storage with private endpoints.

SECURITY

Built-in security and compliance

Microsoft has committed to investing $20 billion in cybersecurity over five years. 

We employ more than 8,500 security and threat intelligence experts across 77 countries. 

Azure has one of the largest compliance certification portfolios in the industry. 

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PRICING

Flexible pricing to simplify data protection

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CUSTOMER STORIES

Trusted by customers of all sizes

Chevron protects mission-critical workloads

Chevron uses Azure reliability tools to shore up app resilience and protect against unplanned IT outages.

Ace Hardware expands globally

Ace Hardware International provides new franchisees with a complete, end-to-end digital solution to onboard faster.

Correios de Portugal saves costs

Durable storage options in Azure help CTT meet its compliance objectives and recovery time requirements.

Dialog strengthens M365 and Azure backups

Dialog demonstrates the power of joint cloud solutions withCommvault’s Metallic solution and Microsoft resources including Azure Backup.

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NTT centralizes management

NTT Ltd. gets a systematic view of all their assets and can recover faster, and more securely, than with on-premises infrastructure.

RESOURCES

Get started with Azure Backup

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Use the Azure portal to back up VMs

It's easy to back up multiple virtual machines by creating a backup policy and applying that policy to the desired virtual machines.

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Help protect from ransomware

With increased cyberattacks and security threats, learn how Azure Backup provides three built-in roles to control backup operations.

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Learn how to backup Windows Server

Implement Windows IaaS VM recovery, backup and restore on-premises workloads, and manage Azure VM backups.

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 Azure Backup supports Azure Virtual Machines, SQL workloads, and on-premises VMware machines. See a 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.