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Azure Backup is an Azure-based service you can use to back up (or protect) and restore your data in the Microsoft cloud.

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Backup for Azure VMs

Prices listed below are applicable when backing up your IaaS VMs.

The size of the backed-up data determines the pricing for Azure Backup in each protected instance before compression and encryption.

  • For virtual machines (VM), the size calculation is based on actual (used) size of VM. This is the sum of all data in the VM, excluding temporary storage.
  • When backing-up files and folders, the size of the files and folders configured for backup determine the data size.
  • When backing-up SQL Server, the size of the databases configured for backup determine the data size.
Size of each instance Azure Backup price per month
Instance < or = 50 GB $5 + storage consumed
Instance is > 50 GB but < or = 500 GB $10 + storage consumed
Instance is > 500 GB $10 for each 500 GB increment + storage consumed

Example: If you have 1.2 TB of data in one instance, then the cost would be $30 plus storage consumed. You would be charged $10 for each of the two 500 GB increments and $10 for the remaining 200 GB data.

Backup Storage

Backup Storage is an auto-scaling, reliable set of storage accounts managed by Azure Backup and isolated from customer tenants to provide additional security. Charges for storage are separate from the cost of Azure Backup Protected Instances.

By default, all backup data protected by Azure Backup go into the Standard tier. For backups with long term retention (monthly and yearly backups with retention longer than 6 months), you have the option to move them to the Archive tier. Learn more.

In Standard tier, you have the flexibility to choose between locally redundant storage (LRS), zone redundant storage (ZRS) or geo-redundant storage (GRS) for your backups. If you enable cross-region-restore, we upgrade your backup storage from GRS to read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS).

Your backup data can be moved to Archive tier via policy or by running specific PowerShell commands on chosen backups.

Instant Restore option creates snapshots that are present in Disks and are charged as Disk snapshots. Learn more.

Standard Tier Archive Tier
LRS $0.0224 per GB $0.0027 per GB
ZRS $0.028 per GB N/A
GRS $0.0448 per GB $0.0054 per GB
RA-GRS $0.0569 per GB $0.0054 per GB

Azure Backup Storage Reserved Capacity

Backup Storage Reserved Capacity helps you lower your backup data storage cost by committing to one-year or three-years of Azure Backup Storage. Reserved capacity can be purchased in increments of 100 TB and 1 PB sizes for 1-year and 3-year commitment duration. All prices are for the entire term of reservation. For more information, please see documentation.

1-year reserved 3-year reserved
Standard Tier Standard Tier
100 TB/month 1 PB/month 100 TB/month 1 PB/month
LRS $24,222 $236,760 $66,060 $642,634
GRS $48,444 $473,520 $132,121 $1,285,269
ZRS $30,278 $295,950 $82,575 $803,293
RA-GRS $61,528 $601,413 $167,805 $1,632,406

Early deletion

In addition to the per-GB, per-month charge, any backup data that is moved to the Archive tier is subject to an Archive early deletion period of 180 days. This charge is prorated. For example, if a backup is moved to the Archive tier and then a “Stop Protection and Delete data” is performed on the associated datasource, you will be charged an early deletion fee for 135 (180 minus 45) days of Backup Storage in Archive tier.

Rehydration

Restoring from the Standard tier of Backup Storage is free of charge and does not incur any transaction or egress charges. However, when you restore data from the Archive tier, a one-time data retrieval fee is charged. The charges are same as the data retrieval charges for Azure Blob storage. Learn more.

On-premises servers

Prices listed below are applicable when using any of the following backup solutions – Azure Backup (MARS) agent, System Center DPM or Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS) to backup your servers, files and folders or SQL servers.

The size of the backed-up data determines the pricing for Azure Backup in each protected instance before compression and encryption.

  • For virtual machines (VM), the size calculation is based on actual (used) size of VM. This is the sum of all data in the VM, excluding temporary storage.
  • When backing-up files and folders, the size of the files and folders configured for backup determine the data size.
  • When backing-up SQL Server, the size of the databases configured for backup determine the data size.
Size of each instance Azure Backup price per month
Instance < or = 50 GB $5 + storage consumed
Instance is > 50 GB but < or = 500 GB $10 + storage consumed
Instance is > 500 GB $10 for each 500 GB increment + storage consumed

Example: If you have 1.2 TB of data in one instance, then the cost would be $30 plus storage consumed. You would be charged $10 for each of the two 500 GB increments and $10 for the remaining 200 GB data.

Backup Storage

Backup Storage is an auto-scaling, reliable set of storage accounts managed by Azure Backup and isolated from customer tenants to provide additional security You have the flexibility to choose between locally redundant storage (LRS), zone redundant storage (ZRS) or geo-redundant storage (GRS) for your backups. Azure Backup uses Blob storage for storing your backups. Charges for storage are separate from the cost of Azure Backup Protected Instances.

Archive tier support is not available for on-premises server backups.

Standard Tier Archive Tier
LRS $0.0224 per GB N/A
ZRS $0.028 per GB N/A
GRS $0.0448 per GB N/A
RA-GRS N/A N/A

Azure Backup Storage Reserved Capacity

Backup Storage Reserved Capacity helps you lower your backup data storage cost by committing to one-year or three-years of Azure Backup Storage. Reserved capacity can be purchased in increments of 100 TB and 1 PB sizes for 1-year and 3-year commitment duration. All prices are for the entire term of reservation. For more information, please see documentation.

1-year reserved 3-year reserved
Standard Tier Standard Tier
100 TB/month 1 PB/month 100 TB/month 1 PB/month
LRS $24,222 $236,760 $66,060 $642,634
GRS $48,444 $473,520 $132,121 $1,285,269
ZRS $30,278 $295,950 $82,575 $803,293
RA-GRS $61,528 $601,413 $167,805 $1,632,406

Backup for SQL Server on Azure VMs

The size of the backed-up data before compression and encryption determines the billing for using Azure Backup for SQL Server on Azure VMs

  • When backing-up SQL Server running on an Azure VM, the size of the databases configured for backup determines the size of each instance.
  • When backing-up SQL Server availability groups, the size of the databases configured for backup on an availability group determines the size of each instance.
Size of each instance Azure Backup price per month
Instance < or = 500 GB $30 + storage consumed
Instance is > 500 GB $30 for each 500 GB increment + storage consumed

Example: If you have 1.2 TB of data in one instance, then the cost would be $90 plus storage consumed. You would be charged $30 for two 500 GB increments and $30 for the remaining 200 GB data.

Backup Storage

Backup Storage is an auto-scaling, reliable set of storage accounts managed by Azure Backup and isolated from customer tenants to provide additional security. Azure Backup uses Blob storage for storing your backups. Charges for storage are separate from the cost of Azure Backup Protected Instances.

By default, all backup data protected by Azure Backup go into the Standard tier. For backups with long term retention (monthly and yearly backups with retention longer than 6 months), you have the option to move them to the Archive tier. Learn more.

In Standard tier, you have the flexibility to choose between locally redundant storage (LRS), zone redundant storage (ZRS) or geo-redundant storage (GRS) for your backups. If you enable cross-region-restore, we upgrade your backup storage from GRS to read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS).

Storage in GB/Month LRS ZRS GRS RA-GRS
Standard Tier $0.0224 per GB $0.028 per GB $0.0448 per GB $0.0569 per GB
Archive Tier $0.0027 per GB N/A $0.0054 per GB N/A

Azure Backup Storage Reserved Capacity

Backup Storage Reserved Capacity helps you lower your backup data storage cost by committing to one-year or three-years of Azure Backup Storage. Reserved capacity can be purchased in increments of 100 TB and 1 PB sizes for 1-year and 3-year commitment duration. All prices are for the entire term of reservation. For more information, please see documentation.

1-year reserved 3-year reserved
Standard Tier Standard Tier
100 TB/month 1 PB/month 100 TB/month 1 PB/month
LRS $24,222 $236,760 $66,060 $642,634
GRS $48,444 $473,520 $132,121 $1,285,269
ZRS $30,278 $295,950 $82,575 $803,293
RA-GRS $61,528 $601,413 $167,805 $1,632,406

Early deletion

In addition to the per-GB, per-month charge, any backup data that is moved to the Archive tier is subject to an Archive early deletion period of 180 days. This charge is prorated. For example, if a backup is moved to the Archive tier and then a “Stop Protection and Delete data” is performed on the associated datasource, you will be charged an early deletion fee for 135 (180 minus 45) days of Backup Storage in Archive tier.

Rehydration

Restoring from the Standard tier of Backup Storage is free of charge and does not incur any transaction or egress charges. However, when you restore data from the Archive tier, a one-time data retrieval fee is charged. The charges are same as the data retrieval charges for Azure Blob storage. Learn more.

Backup for SAP HANA on Azure VMs (via Backint)

The size of the backed-up data before compression and encryption determines the billing for using Azure Backup for SAP HANA DBs on Azure VMs. Currently, backup is supported for only scale-up deployment i.e. SAP HANA server in a single Azure VM.

Number of Instances Azure Backup price per month
Instance = 1 $98.94 flat + storage consumed

Example: In the East US region, if you have 1.2 TB of database in a single HANA instance, the cost will be a flat rate of $98.94, regardless of the database size + storage consumed.

Backup for SAP HANA on Azure VMs (Via Snapshot)

Size of each instance Azure Backup price per month
Instance < or = 5 TB $98.40 + storage consumed
Instance > 5 TB $98.40 for each 5 TB increment + storage consumed

Example: In the East US region, If you have 12 TB of database in one instance, then the cost would be $295.20 plus storage consumed. You would be charged $196.80 for each of the two 5 TB increments and $98.40 for the remaining 2 TB data.

Backup Storage

Backup Storage is an auto-scaling, reliable set of storage accounts managed by Azure Backup and isolated from customer tenants to provide additional security. Azure Backup uses Blob storage for storing your backups. Charges for storage are separate from the cost of Azure Backup Protected Instances.

By default, all backup data protected by Azure Backup go into the Standard tier. For backups with long term retention (monthly and yearly backups with retention longer than 6 months), you have the option to move them to the Archive tier. Learn more.

In Standard tier, you have the flexibility to choose between locally redundant storage (LRS), zone redundant storage (ZRS) or geo-redundant storage (GRS) for your backups. If you enable cross-region-restore, we upgrade your backup storage from GRS to read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS).

Storage in GB/Month LRS ZRS GRS RA-GRS
Standard Tier $0.0224 per GB $0.028 per GB $0.0448 per GB $0.0569 per GB
Archive Tier $0.0027 per GB N/A $0.0054 per GB N/A

Pricing for Managed disk snapshots for Instant Restore functionality: Pricing - Managed Disks | Microsoft Azure

Azure Backup Storage Reserved Capacity

Backup Storage Reserved Capacity helps you lower your backup data storage cost by committing to one-year or three-years of Azure Backup Storage. Reserved capacity can be purchased in increments of 100 TB and 1 PB sizes for 1-year and 3-year commitment duration. All prices are for the entire term of reservation. For more information, please see documentation.

1-year reserved 3-year reserved
Standard Tier Standard Tier
100 TB/month 1 PB/month 100 TB/month 1 PB/month
LRS $24,222 $236,760 $66,060 $642,634
GRS $48,444 $473,520 $132,121 $1,285,269
ZRS $30,278 $295,950 $82,575 $803,293
RA-GRS $61,528 $601,413 $167,805 $1,632,406

Early deletion

In addition to the per-GB, per-month charge, any backup data that is moved to the Archive tier is subject to an Archive early deletion period of 180 days. This charge is prorated. For example, if a backup is moved to the Archive tier and then a “Stop Protection and Delete data” is performed on the associated datasource, you will be charged an early deletion fee for 135 (180 minus 45) days of Backup Storage in Archive tier.

Rehydration

Restoring from the Standard tier of Backup Storage is free of charge and does not incur any transaction or egress charges. However, when you restore data from the Archive tier, a one-time data retrieval fee is charged. The charges are same as the data retrieval charges for Azure Blob storage. Learn more.

Backup for SAP ASE (Sybase) on Azure VMs

The size of the backed-up data before compression and encryption determines the billing for using Azure Backup for SAP ASE DBs on Azure VMs.

Number of Instances Azure Backup price per month
Instance = 1 $98.94 flat + storage consumed

Example: In the East US region, if you have 1.2 TB of database in a single SAP ASE instance, the cost will be a flat rate of $98.94, regardless of the database size + storage consumed.

Backup Storage

Backup Storage is an auto-scaling, reliable set of storage accounts managed by Azure Backup and isolated from customer tenants to provide additional security. Azure Backup uses Blob storage for storing your backups. Charges for storage are separate from the cost of Azure Backup Protected Instances.

By default, all backup data protected by Azure Backup go into the Standard tier. For backups with long term retention (monthly and yearly backups with retention longer than 6 months), you have the option to move them to the Archive tier. Learn more.

In Standard tier, you have the flexibility to choose between locally redundant storage (LRS), zone redundant storage (ZRS) or geo-redundant storage (GRS) for your backups. If you enable cross-region-restore, we upgrade your backup storage from GRS to read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS).

Storage in GB/Month LRS ZRS GRS RA-GRS
Standard Tier $0.0224 per GB $0.028 per GB $0.0448 per GB $0.0569 per GB
Archive Tier $0.0027 per GB N/A $0.0054 per GB N/A

Pricing for Managed disk snapshots for Instant Restore functionality: Pricing - Managed Disks | Microsoft Azure

Azure Backup Storage Reserved Capacity

Backup Storage Reserved Capacity helps you lower your backup data storage cost by committing to one-year or three-years of Azure Backup Storage. Reserved capacity can be purchased in increments of 100 TB and 1 PB sizes for 1-year and 3-year commitment duration. All prices are for the entire term of reservation. For more information, please see documentation.

1-year reserved 3-year reserved
Standard Tier Standard Tier
100 TB/month 1 PB/month 100 TB/month 1 PB/month
LRS $24,222 $236,760 $66,060 $642,634
GRS $48,444 $473,520 $132,121 $1,285,269
ZRS $30,278 $295,950 $82,575 $803,293
RA-GRS $61,528 $601,413 $167,805 $1,632,406

Early deletion

In addition to the per-GB, per-month charge, any backup data that is moved to the Archive tier is subject to an Archive early deletion period of 180 days. This charge is prorated. For example, if a backup is moved to the Archive tier and then a “Stop Protection and Delete data” is performed on the associated datasource, you will be charged an early deletion fee for 135 (180 minus 45) days of Backup Storage in Archive tier.

Rehydration

Restoring from the Standard tier of Backup Storage is free of charge and does not incur any transaction or egress charges. However, when you restore data from the Archive tier, a one-time data retrieval fee is charged. The charges are same as the data retrieval charges for Azure Blob storage. Learn more.

Backup for Azure Files

Azure Backup offers the below options to back up the data stored in Azure File share:

Snapshot backup: Azure Backup offers a Snapshot Management solution for protecting Azure Files. The snapshot data created by Azure Backup is present in your Storage account that lets you protect your data from accidental deletion and modification scenarios and incurs snapshot storage charges. This data is not moved to a Recovery Services Vault.

An Azure Files Protected instance is defined as the Storage Account that holds backed up Azure Files shares.

  • The combined size of all backed-up Azure File Shares in a Storage Account determines the instance size while using the Snapshot management for Azure Files.
  • Azure Backup uses Azure File Share snapshots for creating recovery points.
Size of each instance Azure Backup price per month
Instance is > 250 GB $5
Instance < or = 250 GB 60% of Azure Files Protected Instances price per month

Vaulted backup: Vaulted backup for Azure Files is a managed, comprehensive data protection solution that enables data transfer to the vault and lets you protect your file shares against data loss scenarios ranging from accidental deletes to ransomware attacks or malicious admin scenarios. You will incur a protected instance fee and charges for backup storage. The size of data in the protected storage account determines the pricing for each instance.

Size of each instance Protected instance price per month
<10 GB 10% of 1 protected instance per month
10-100 GB 30% of 1 protected instance per month
100 GB-1 TB 60% of 1 protected instance per month
>=1 TB $12.30

For an account with file shares protected with vaulted backup, only vaulted backup Protected Instance fee will be applicable. If an account has a few shares protected with operational backup and a few with vaulted backup, two protected instance fees will be applicable based on the total size of the data protected with each backup solution.

Backup Storage

Backup Storage is an auto-scaling, reliable set of storage accounts managed by Azure Backup and isolated from customer tenants to provide additional security. Charges for storage are separate from the cost of Azure Backup Protected Instances. By default, all backup data protected by Azure Backup go into the Standard tier. 

Backup storage redundancy is the redundancy you set for the vault used for protecting Azure File Share. You have the flexibility to choose between locally redundant storage (LRS), zone redundant storage (ZRS), or geo-redundant storage (GRS) for your backups. The storage charges depend on the redundancy you set for the vault used for backup.

Storage in GB/month LRS ZRS GRS RA-GRS
Standard Tier $0.0505 per GB $0.0591 per GB $0.0935 per GB $0.1194 per GB

Azure Backup Storage Reserved Capacity

Backup Storage Reserved Capacity helps you lower your backup data storage cost by committing to one-year or three-years of Azure Backup Storage. Reserved capacity can be purchased in increments of 100 TB and 1 PB sizes for 1-year and 3-year commitment duration. All prices are for the entire term of reservation. For more information, please see documentation.

1-year reserved 3-year reserved
Standard Tier Standard Tier
100 TB/month 1 PB/month 100 TB/month 1 PB/month
LRS $24,222 $236,760 $66,060 $642,634
GRS $48,444 $473,520 $132,121 $1,285,269
ZRS $30,278 $295,950 $82,575 $803,293
RA-GRS $61,528 $601,413 $167,805 $1,632,406

Backup for Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Azure Backup and Azure Database Services have come together to build an enterprise-class backup solution for Azure Database for PostgreSQL servers that retains backups for up to 10 years. Please refer to our support matrix to understand the features supported currently.

Size of each instance Azure Backup price per month
Instance cost per 250 GB $7.50 + storage consumed

Backup Storage

Backup Storage is an auto-scaling, reliable set of storage accounts managed by Azure Backup and isolated from customer tenants to provide additional security. Charges for storage are separate from the cost of Azure Backup Protected Instances.

By default, all backup data protected by Azure Backup go into the Standard tier. For backups with long term retention (monthly and yearly backups with retention longer than 6 months), you have the option to move them to the Archive tier. Learn more.

In Standard tier, you have the flexibility to choose between locally redundant storage (LRS), zone redundant storage (ZRS) or geo-redundant storage (GRS) for your backups.

Your backup data can be moved to Archive tier via policy or by running specific PowerShell commands on chosen backups.

Storage in GB/Month LRS ZRS GRS RA-GRS
Standard Tier $0.0224 per GB $0.028 per GB $0.0448 per GB N/A per GB
Archive Tier $0.0027 per GB N/A per GB $0.0054 per GB N/A per GB

Azure Backup Storage Reserved Capacity

Backup Storage Reserved Capacity helps you lower your backup data storage cost by committing to one-year or three-years of Azure Backup Storage. Reserved capacity can be purchased in increments of 100 TB and 1 PB sizes for 1-year and 3-year commitment duration. All prices are for the entire term of reservation. For more information, please see documentation.

1-year reserved 3-year reserved
Standard Tier Standard Tier
100 TB/month 1 PB/month 100 TB/month 1 PB/month
LRS $24,222 $236,760 $66,060 $642,634
GRS $48,444 $473,520 $132,121 $1,285,269
ZRS $30,278 $295,950 $82,575 $803,293
RA-GRS $61,528 $601,413 $167,805 $1,632,406

Early deletion

In addition to the per-GB, per-month charge, any backup data that is moved to the Archive tier is subject to an Archive early deletion period of 180 days. This charge is prorated. For example, if a backup is moved to the Archive tier and then a “Stop Protection and Delete data” is performed on the associated datasource, you will be charged an early deletion fee for 135 (180 minus 45) days of Backup Storage in Archive tier.

Rehydration

Restoring from the Standard tier of Backup Storage is free of charge and does not incur any transaction or egress charges. However, when you restore data from the Archive tier, a one-time data retrieval fee is charged. The charges are same as the data retrieval charges for Azure Blob storage. Learn more.

Backup for Azure Blobs

Azure Backup offers the below options to back up the data stored in Azure Blob:

Operational backup: Operational backup for blobs is a managed, local data protection solution that lets you protect your data from accidental deletion and modification scenarios, leveraging versioning and point-in-time restore capabilities. The backups are not transferred to the vault. You won’t incur any instance fee or backup storage charges. However, you will incur charges corresponding to soft delete for blobs, Change feed, point-in-time restore, and Blob versioning.

Vaulted backup: Vaulted backup for blobs is a managed, comprehensive data protection solution that enables data transfer to the vault and lets you protect your block blobs against data loss scenarios ranging from accidental deletes to ransomware attacks or malicious admin scenarios. You will incur a protected instance fee and charges for write transactions and backup storage. The size of data in the protected storage account determines the pricing for each instance.

Size of each instance Azure Backup price per month
<10 GB 10% of Azure Blob protected instance per month
10-100 GB 30% of Azure Blob protected instance per month
100 GB-1 TB 60% of Azure Blob protected instance per month
>=1 TB $12.30

Write operations are the number of writes performed by Azure Backup service to back up the data to the backup storage account. It depends on the number of writes done on the protected storage account.

Backup storage redundancy Write operations (per 10,000)
LRS $0.057
ZRS $0.071
GRS $0.113

Backup storage redundancy is the redundancy you set for the vault used for protecting Azure Blob.

You will also incur charges corresponding to Change feed and Blob versioning capabilities leveraged for vaulted backup on the protected storage account, per the pricing details mentioned in Azure Blob Storage Pricing.

Backup Storage

Backup Storage is an auto-scaling, reliable set of storage accounts managed by Azure Backup and isolated from customer tenants to provide additional security. Charges for storage are separate from the cost of Azure Backup Protected Instances. By default, all backup data protected by Azure Backup go into the Standard tier.

You have the flexibility to choose between locally redundant storage (LRS), zone redundant storage (ZRS), or geo-redundant storage (GRS) for your backups. The storage charges depend on the redundancy you set for the vault used for backup.

Archive and cross-region restore capabilities are currently not supported for Azure Blob backup.

Storage in GB/month LRS ZRS GRS RA-GRS
Standard Tier $0.0224 per GB $0.028 per GB $0.0448 per GB N/A

Azure Backup Storage Reserved Capacity

Backup Storage Reserved Capacity helps you lower your backup data storage cost by committing to one-year or three-years of Azure Backup Storage. Reserved capacity can be purchased in increments of 100 TB and 1 PB sizes for 1-year and 3-year commitment duration. All prices are for the entire term of reservation. For more information, please see documentation.

1-year reserved 3-year reserved
Standard Tier Standard Tier
100 TB/month 1 PB/month 100 TB/month 1 PB/month
LRS $24,222 $236,760 $66,060 $642,634
GRS $48,444 $473,520 $132,121 $1,285,269
ZRS $30,278 $295,950 $82,575 $803,293
RA-GRS $61,528 $601,413 $167,805 $1,632,406

Backup for Azure Disks

Azure Backup uses incremental snapshots of the managed disk. Incremental snapshots are charged per GiB of the storage occupied by the delta changes since the last snapshot. The snapshots created by Azure Backup are stored in the resource group within your Azure subscription and incur Snapshot Storage charges. For more details about the snapshot pricing, see Managed Disk Pricing. Because the snapshots aren't copied to the Backup Vault, Azure Backup doesn't charge a Protected Instance fee and Backup Storage cost doesn't apply.

Incremental snapshots are always stored on standard storage, irrespective of the storage type of parent-managed disks and are charged based on the pricing of standard storage. For example, incremental snapshots of a Premium SSD-Managed Disk are stored on standard storage. By default, they are stored on ZRS in regions that support ZRS. Otherwise, they are stored on locally redundant storage (LRS). The per GiB pricing of both the options, LRS and ZRS, is the same.

Backup for Azure Kubernetes Service

Azure Backup offers Kubernetes aware backup solution allowing customers to protect containerized applications and data within Persistent Volumes deployed in an AKS cluster. The backup data created by Azure Backup is stored in your storage account and incurs blob storage charges and volumes are stored as Disk snapshots incurring disk snapshot charges.

An AKS Protected instance is defined as the AKS Cluster being configured for backup.

  • The protected instance fees is determined by number of Namespaces within AKS cluster selected to be backed up within a Protected Instance.
AKS Protected Instance Azure Backup price per month
Namespaces in each instance $12 per Namespace

Backup for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Servers

Azure Backup and Azure Database Services have come together to build an enterprise-class backup solution for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible servers that retains backups for up to 10 years. Please refer to our support matrix (Azure Database for PostgreSQL- Flexible server support matrix (preview) - Azure Backup | Microsoft Learn) to understand the features supported currently.

Size of each instance Azure Backup price per month
Instance cost per 250 GB $7.50 + storage consumed

Backup Storage

Backup Storage is an auto-scaling, reliable set of storage accounts managed by Azure Backup and isolated from customer tenants to provide additional security. Charges for storage are separate from the cost of Azure Backup Protected Instances.

By default, all backup data protected by Azure Backup go into the Standard tier, where they can be retained for 10 years.

In Standard tier, you have the flexibility to choose between locally redundant storage (LRS), zone redundant storage (ZRS) or geo-redundant storage (GRS) for your backups.

Storage in GB/Month LRS ZRS GRS RA-GRS
Standard Tier $0.0224 per GB $0.028 per GB $0.0448 per GB N/A per GB

Azure Backup Storage Reserved Capacity

Backup Storage Reserved Capacity helps you lower your backup data storage cost by committing to one-year or three-years of Azure Backup Storage. Reserved capacity can be purchased in increments of 100 TB and 1 PB sizes for 1-year and 3-year commitment duration. All prices are for the entire term of reservation. For more information, please see documentation.

1-year reserved 3-year reserved
Standard Tier Standard Tier
100 TB/month 1 PB/month 100 TB/month 1 PB/month
LRS $24,222 $236,760 $66,060 $642,634
GRS $48,444 $473,520 $132,121 $1,285,269
ZRS $30,278 $295,950 $82,575 $803,293
RA-GRS $61,528 $601,413 $167,805 $1,632,406

Rehydration

Restoring from the Standard tier of Backup Storage is free of charge and does not incur any transaction or egress charges.

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High-level overview

  • The new pricing model for Azure Backup has two components:

    • Protected instances: This is the primary billing unit for Azure Backup. Customers pay for the number of instances that are protected with the Azure backup service
    • Storage: Customers can choose between Locally Redundant Storage (LRS) or Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) for their backup vault. The net price for Storage depends on the amount of data stored with the service.

    These two components appear as separate line items on the monthly Azure bill.

  • A protected instance refers to the computer, physical or virtual server you use to configure the backup to Azure. An instance is protected once you configure a backup policy for the computer, server, or database, and create a backup copy of the data. Subsequent copies of the backup data change the amount of storage consumed, but additional backup copies don’t add to the number of protected instances. Some common examples of protected instances are virtual machines, application servers, and personal computers running the Windows operating system. For example:

    • A virtual machine running the Hyper-V or Azure IaaS hypervisor fabric. The guest operating systems for these virtual machines can be Windows Server or Linux.
    • An application server with physical or a virtual machine running Windows Server and workloads with data to backup. Common workloads are Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange server, Microsoft SharePoint server, Microsoft Dynamics, and the File Server role on Windows Server. To back-up or protect these workloads, you’ll need Azure Backup Server or System Center Data Protection Manager, DPM.
    • A personal computer running the Windows operating system.
    • SQL Server which includes all databases on the server.

    If you choose to backup a virtual machine hypervisor fabric and its guest workload, the hypervisor fabric and the guest workload are treated as separate protected instances and are charged independently.

  • No, from a billing perspective, instances are classified into three categories based on the size of the instance. The price per protected instance depends on the categorization of the instance in the pricing table above. Note that the prices in the above table do not include Storage which is a separate charge.

  • Customers will not be charged for any restore operations or outbound network bandwidth (egress) that is associated with restore operations.

  • The new pricing will be applicable to all Azure Backup customers.

Protected Instances

  • No, usage is prorated based on the number of days in a month that an instance has been protected.

  • All data stored with Azure Backup is billed per the backup storage rates listed above, for the duration that the data is kept with Azure Backup. However, increasing retention does not impact the software price for protected instances that you pay. Note that you must have the latest Azure Backup agent installed on the machine to ensure this behavior.

  • For as long as your data is retained with Azure Backup, you will continue to pay for both Protected Instances and Storage. Your Protected Instances bill is based on the size from the last successful backup before you decided to stop protection. Your Storage bill is based on the total amount of data stored in the backup vault for that instance.

    For example, take the backup of a 100 GB virtual machine. The Protected Instance charge is $10 per month. Every day 1 GB of data is added and the data is retained for 120 days, and you are charged Storage for that separately. After 1 month if you decide the stop protection of the virtual machine but retain the data in Azure Backup, then you will be charged $10 per month until the backup data is explicitly deleted by you.

  • Yes, the Azure Backup agent needs to be upgraded to the latest version to take advantage of the new pricing. Using an older agent will adversely impact the size of protected instances being billed.

  • The new pricing will be applicable to all Azure Backup customers.

Backup storage costs

  • All data stored with Azure Backup is billed per the backup storage rates listed above.

  • This depends on the storage choice selected for the backup vault. The choice of storage for the backup vault are: Locally Redundant Storage (LRS) or Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS).

  • Yes. The backup data in each vault will be billed at the appropriate LRS or GRS Block Blob rates for the region where the vault is located. The customer has complete control of the Azure storage bill with the vault choices that are picked.

  • The total amount of backup data held in Azure Backup (the “backend size”) for a specific Protected Instance can change due to the following factors:

    • Retention period of the backed-up data
    • Net new churn stored in each recovery point
    • Level of compression achieved on the backup data
    • Frequency of the scheduled backup jobs
    • Any associated backup metadata

  • The backup vault Dashboard page will show the total data from the machine registered to the vault. It will also show the type of storage used for the backup vault.

  • As with the current pricing, you do not have to pay for storage transactions with Azure Backup. These are included as a part of the software price that you pay.

Networking costs

  • ExpressRoute charges are not covered by Azure Backup. The customer will continue to pay for Azure Backup independently and for ExpressRoute based on the port speed that has been selected.

Examples

  • Primary machine Workload Protected instance size Billed amount*
    1 Windows host Windows Server 2012 (Files/Folder backup) 300 GB $10/month
    3 Windows hosts Microsoft Exchange
    Microsoft Exchange
    Microsoft Exchange    		 600 GB
    1,300 GB
    400 GB    		 $20/month
    $30/month
    $10/month
    1 Windows client machine Windows 8.1 (Files/Folder backup) 25 GB $5/month
    1 Hyper-V virtual machine Virtual machine backup 30 GB $5/month
    1 Azure IaaS virtual machine Virtual machine backup 250 GB $10/month
    1 Windows guest machine Windows Server 2012 (Files/Folder backup) 120 GB $10/month
    1 Windows guest machine Microsoft SQL Server standalone 600 GB $20/month
    3 Windows guest machines Microsoft SQL Server cluster:
    • Machine 1: 50 databases
    • Machine 2: 75 databases
    • Machine 3: 20 databases
    		 70 GB
    80 GB
    15 GB    		 $10/month +
    $10/month +
    $5/month

    NOTE: If the databases move around in the cluster, then the size at the time of the backup is used for calculations.

    5 Windows guest machines Complete SharePoint farm with frontend, content databased etc… 1,300 GB $30/month (SharePoint farm size > 1,000 GB and < 1,500 GB)

    NOTE: A SharePoint farm is a special entity and is billed based on the total size of the protected data in the farm.

    *Azure storage is billed additionally based on backup choices.

  • For protecting the 250 GB of SQL Server databases to Azure Backup, the SQL Server is treated as a protected instance. Since the size of the protected instance is greater than 50 GB but less than 500 GB, the price is $10 per month. If the virtual machine is also backed-up to Azure Backup, it is counted as another protected Instance. Since the virtual machine size is between 50 GB and 500 GB, its price is also $10 per month.

    Virtual machine backup and in-guest workload backup are charged independently.

  • Yes, when using the MAB server to backup data locally you will still be charged the per instance backup service fee. However, since the data is only being backed up locally, you will not incur any Azure storage charges.

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