Azure Backup vs Snapshot pricing for Disks

Question

Is it the same pricing for both Azure backup for data disk and Azure snapshot (data disk). What is the difference in pricing? Also please give me an exact pricing per month for both Azure backup and Azure snapshot for data disks

Answer 1

Hi @Ashitha S

I would highly recommend speaking to an Azure Sales about the pricing for your situation, but the following is a high level explanation of Azure backup + snapshots:

Contact Microsoft Azure Sales

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/contact/

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Azure Backup pricing

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/pricing/details/backup/#pricing

Why and how to enable Azure Backup Instant Restore

The Instant Restore functionality is included in the base Azure Backup offering. There is an additional cost for snapshot use.

https://www.techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/tip/Why-and-how-to-enable-Azure-Backup-Instant-Restore#:~:text=Azure%20Backup%20Instant%20Restore%20enables,replicated%20to%20the%20DR%20site.

Cost impact (of snapshots)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-instant-restore-capability#cost-impact

Managed Disks pricing (in Canadian Dollars CAD)

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-disks/

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Answer 2

@Ashitha S Adding more information to the above response!

Firstly refer to this thread which provides information on what is the difference of Azure backup vs Snapshots data disk,

Billing for any provisioned Managed disk is prorated hourly per disks by using the monthly price for the storage offering. For example, you provision an E10 disk and delete it after 20 hours of use. In this case, you're billed for the E10 offering prorated to 20 hours, regardless of the amount of data written to the disk.

Please give me an exact pricing per month for both Azure backup and Azure snapshot for data disks " Please reach out to Billing support team! for more specialized assistance ( for **estimates because it's based on region, data, standard or premium account) on this scenario, and it's free, and it's the best choice for you.**"

Please let us know if you have any further queries. I’m happy to assist you further.

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