Vaulted Backup for Azure Blob Storage Available

Microsoft Corp. announced that vaulted backups for Azure Blob Storage is generally available in all public cloud regions, except France South and South Africa West.

It’s also available in sovereign cloud regions – all Azure Government regions and China regions (except China East).

Vaulted backups for Azure Blob Storage keeps an offsite copy of your data and safeguards your business-critical data stored in Azure Blob Storage vs. accidental deletion, corruption, and malicious attacks. It allows quick data recovery and BC, minimizing the impact of data loss. 

Vaulted backups can also help you meet compliance requirements through long-term retention and enhance the security of your backups, helping you recover your data even in cases of cyberattacks. The Azure Backup service offers extensive monitoring, alerting, and management capabilities, allowing for easy configuration and at-scale management of your vaulted backups via the Azure BC Center’s single pane of glass. You can use vaulted backups along with the existing operational backup solution for blob storage as well.

Enhancements to the vaulted backup solution: 

• Granular restores based on prefix match: You have the flexibility to restore specific blobs based on prefix match from vaulted backups. It enables efficient restores, helping you resume business operations. 
• Automation tools: You can configure and manage vaulted backups using PowerShell, CLI, Rest APIs or Bicep template, along with the Azure portal. It empowers you to incorporate backup tasks into your current DevOps pipelines. 
• Restricting data replication: You have the capability to exclusively enable data replication to the Microsoft tenant for backup purposes. This helps you further reduce any risk of data exfiltration. 

Vaulted backup for Azure Blob is available in these regions. For information on detailed pricing, refer to the Azure Blob backup pricing page. Consistent with the billing experience we had in public preview, the Azure Backup protected instance fee and the vault backup storage fees are not currently charged, and will tentatively commence in October 2024.