Azure Backup
Simplify data protection with built-in backup management at scale.
Overview
The Azure Backup service provides simple, secure, and cost-effective solutions to back up your data and recover it from the Microsoft Azure cloud.
Key Resources
| Homepage: | https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/backup/ |
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| Pricing: | https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/backup/ |
| SLA: | https://azure.microsoft.com/support/legal/sla/backup/ |
| Newsfeed: | RSS |
News
| Date | News |
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| 2/6/2026 |
Today, Azure Disk Backup protects data by taking regular, crash-consistent snapshots of Azure Disks. These snapshots are stored within your subscription and tenant in a resource group, referred...
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| 11/18/2025 |
Introduction
In today’s digital-first world, even brief downtime can disrupt revenue, reputation, and operations. Azure’s new resiliency capabilities empower organizations to anticipate and...
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| 11/18/2025 |
Azure Backup has introduced threat detection capabilities for Azure VM backups, powered by Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC). This new capability enables customers to assess the health of their...
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| 11/11/2025 |
Azure Backup vaulted protection
for ADLS Gen2 delivers secure, off‑site backups to help organizations meet
resilience and compliance goals. Vaulted backups maintain an independent copy
of your...
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| 10/9/2025 |
Announcing the Public Preview of Vaulted Backup
for Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS)!Azure Backup now
supports vaulted protection for ADLS, delivering secure, off-site backups that
ensure business...
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| 9/22/2025 |
Announcing the General availability of vaulted backup for Azure Files shares premium! Azure Backup brings vaulted protection to Azure Files shares premium, to ensure business
continuity and...
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| 8/1/2025 |
Azure Backup support for agentless multi-disk crash consistent backups for Azure Virtual Machines is now Generally Available.Agentless multi-disk crash consistent backups for Azure VM allows you...
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| 7/30/2025 |
Architecture
Ansys Minerva baseline architecture has four distributed tiers (client, web, enterprise, and resource) in a single Azure availability zone. Each tier aligns to function and...
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| 7/17/2025 |
Premium SSD v2 delivers high-performance block storage with sub-millisecond latency, high IOPS, and throughput—at a low cost. With Geo Redundant Storage (GRS) and Cross-Region Restore (CRR)...
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| 7/16/2025 |
Trusted Launch support with standard backup policies enables seamless backup configuration for secure VMs, aligning with Trusted Launch becoming the default across VM creation interfaces. This...
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| 7/11/2025 |
Azure Backup now supports migration to the enhanced policy for Azure VM backups using standard policy. The migration of VM backups to enhanced policy enables you to schedule multiple backups per...
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| 6/2/2025 |
Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server now offers a backup solution for supporting long-term backup retention and improved compliance for your PostgreSQL databases
using Azure Backup....
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| 5/29/2025 |
Azure Backup now supports Elastic SAN, offering a fully
managed solution for backing up and restoring Elastic SAN volumes. This
integration helps protect data against accidental deletions,...
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| 5/21/2025 |
Premium SSD v2 delivers high-performance block storage with sub-millisecond latency, high IOPS, and throughput—at a low cost. With Geo Redundant Storage (GRS) and Cross-Region Restore (CRR)...
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| 5/20/2025 |
Announcing the general
availability (GA) of vaulted backups by Azure
Backup for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - flexible server, a robust and
scalable backup solution designed to meet the needs...
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| 4/16/2025 |
We’re
excited to announce the Private Preview of Azure Backup for AKS
with support for Azure file share-based Persistent Volumes! With this
new capability, customers can now enable snapshot-based...
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| 4/16/2025 |
Azure Backup now
supports transferring your Azure Data Lake Storage backups to the vault. A
vault stores backups and recovery points created over time. You can define a
backup schedule with daily...
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| 4/8/2025 |
We are excited to announce the Private Preview of an
advanced Threat Detection capability in Azure Backup, now integrated with
Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC). This new feature enables you...
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| 3/4/2025 |
Azure Backup Vaulted support for Azure Files shares standard
is now generally available providing enhanced data protection with the ability
to configure snapshot and vaulted backup in a single...
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| 2/28/2025 |
Microsoft is excited to announce the general availability
(GA) of Vaulted Backups by Azure
Backup for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server, a robust and
scalable backup solution designed...
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