Backup

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Azure Backup is a service that uses Azure Storage to back up VMs, databases, files and folders, and workloads such as SQL Server and Azure Kubernetes Service from sources hosted either on-premises or in Azure. Backup will interest customers who need to back up Azure-hosted resources or who want cloud-based backup to replace or augment existing on-premises backup systems. Although Backup provides backup and restoration services, organizations in need of disaster recovery and failover services should examine Azure Site Recovery.

Product: Backup

Near Term (2026-2027)

Backup is regularly updated with new features and improvements to capacity and performance. Recent enhancements have focused on expanding backups to additional scenarios and adding capabilities that can help protect backups from compromise, ransomware, and other malicious attacks.

Recent improvements, several in preview, include the following:

Broader support for SAP HANA backups and snapshots

Higher container

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