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What's new in Azure Backup

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Azure Backup is constantly improving and releasing new features that enhance the protection of your data in Azure. These new features expand your data protection to new workload types, enhance security, and improve the availability of your backup data. They also add new management, monitoring, and automation capabilities.

You can learn more about the new releases by bookmarking this page or by subscribing to updates here.

Updates summary

Agentless multi-disk crash-consistent backups for Azure VMs (preview)

Azure Backup now supports agentless VM backups by using multi-disk crash-consistent restore points (preview). Crash consistent backups are OS agnostic, do not require any agent, and quiesce VM I/O for a shorter period compared to application or file-system consistent backups for performance sensitive workloads.

For more information, see About agentless multi-disk crash-consistent backup for Azure VMs (preview).

Azure Files vaulted backup (preview)

Azure Backup now enables you to perform a vaulted backup of Azure Files to protect data from ransomware attacks or source data loss due to a malicious actor or rogue admin. You can define the schedule and retention of backups by using a backup policy. Azure Backup creates and manages the recovery points as per the schedule and retention defined in the backup policy.

By using vaulted backups, Azure Backup copies and stores data in the Recovery Services vault. This creates an offsite copy of data that you can retain for up to 99 years. If any data loss occurs on the source account, you can trigger a restore operation to an alternate account and access your data. Additionally, you can use Backup center to manage the vaulted backups at scale and monitor the backup operations by using the rich Alerting and Reporting capabilities of Azure Backup.

If you're currently using snapshot-based backups, we recommend that you try vaulted backups (preview) for complete protection from different data loss scenarios.

Note

Switching to vaulted backups (preview) doesn't lead to loss of the existing snapshots, and they're retained as per the expiry date set in the current backup policy. All future backups will be transferred to the vault as per the schedule and retention set in the modified policy.

For more information, see Azure Files backup overview.

Support for long-term Retention for Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server (preview)

Azure Backup and Azure Database Services provide a new backup solution for the MySQL - Flexible Servers that support retaining backups for up to 10 years. This feature provides you with access to:

  • Comprehensive data protection for different levels of data loss due to accidental deletions or ransomware attacks.
  • Customer controlled scheduled and on-demand backups.
  • Isolated backups stored in a separate security and fault domain.
  • Long-term retention of backups.
  • Centralized monitoring of all backup operations and jobs.

Azure Backup and Azure Database services together help you build an enterprise-class backup solution for Azure MySQL - Flexible Server. You can meet your data protection and compliance needs with a customer-controlled backup policy that enables retention of backups for up to 10 years. This feature allows you to back up the entire MySQL - Flexible Server to long-term Azure Backup vault storage. You can also restore the backups to your storage account and use the native MySQL tools to re-create the MySQL Server. Currently, you can use the Azure portal to perform the MySQL - Flexible Server database protection operations.

For more information, see About Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server retention for long term (preview).

Cross Region Restore support for PostgreSQL by using Azure Backup is now generally available

Azure Backup allows you to replicate your backups to an additional Azure paired region by using Geo-redundant Storage (GRS) to protect your backups from regional outages. When you enable the backups with GRS, the backups in the secondary region become accessible only when Microsoft declares an outage in the primary region. However, Cross Region Restore enables you to access and perform restores from the secondary region recovery points even when no outage occurs in the primary region; thus, enables you to perform drills to assess regional resiliency.

For more information, see Cross Region Restore support for PostgreSQL using Azure Backup.

Vaulted backup and Cross Region Restore for support for AKS (preview)

Azure Backup supports storing AKS backups offsite, which is protected against tenant compromise, malicious attacks and ransomware threats. Along with backup stored in a vault, you can also use the backups in a regional disaster scenario and recover backups.

Once the feature is enabled, your snapshot-based AKS backups stored in Operational Tier are converted into blobs and moved to a Vault-standard tier outside of your tenant. You can enable/disable this feature by updating the retention rules of your backup policy. This feature also allows you to back up data for long term storage as per the compliance and regulatory requirements. With this feature, you can also enable a Backup vault to be Globally redundant with Cross Region Restore, and then your vaulted backups will be available in an Azure Paired region for restore. In case of primary region outage, you can use these backups to restore your AKS clusters in a secondary region.

For more information, see Overview of AKS backup.

Encryption using Customer Managed Keys for Backup vaults (preview)

Azure Backup Vault now allows you to encrypt your backup data using customer-managed keys (CMK) instead of using platform-managed keys, which are enabled by default. This feature enables you to control data access using the key and Key Vault you provide.

For more information, see Encryption of backup data in the Backup vault using customer-managed keys (preview).

Back up Azure Database for PostgreSQL-Flexible server (preview)

Azure Backup and Azure Database services together help you to build an enterprise-class backup solution for Azure PostgreSQL-Flexible server. You can meet your data protection and compliance needs with an end-user-controlled backup policy that enables retention of backups for up to 10 years.

With this, you can back up the entire PostgreSQL Flexible server to Azure Backup Vault storage. These backups can be restored to a target storage account, and you can use native PostgreSQL tools to re-create the PostgreSQL Server.

For more information, see Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible server (preview).

Azure Kubernetes Service backup is now generally available

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) backup is a simple, cloud-native process to back up and restore the containerized applications and data running in AKS clusters. You can configure scheduled backup for both cluster state and application data (persistent volumes - CSI driver based Azure Disks).

The solution provides granular control to choose a specific namespace or an entire cluster to back up or restore with the ability to store backups locally in a blob container and as disk snapshots. With AKS backup, you can unlock end-to-end scenarios - operational recovery, cloning test or developer environments, or cluster upgrade scenarios.

AKS backup integrates with Backup center (with other backup management capabilities) to provide a single pane of glass that helps you govern, monitor, operate, and analyze backups at scale.

If you're running specialized database workloads in the AKS clusters in containers, you can achieve application consistent backups of those databases with Custom Hooks. Once the backup is complete, you can restore those databases in the original or alternate AKS cluster, in the same or different subscription.

For more information, see Overview of AKS backup.

Manage protection of datasources using Azure Business Continuity center (preview)

You can now also manage Azure Backup protections with Azure Business Continuity (ABC) center. ABC enables you to manage your protection estate across solutions and environments. It provides a unified experience with consistent views, seamless navigation, and supporting information to provide a holistic view of your business continuity estate for better discoverability with the ability to do core activities.

For more information, see the supported scenarios of ABC center (preview).

Save your MARS backup passphrase securely to Azure Key Vault is now generally available.

Azure Backup now allows you to save the MARS passphrase to Azure Key Vault automatically from the MARS console during registration or changing passphrase with MARS agent.

The MARS agent from Azure Backup requires a passphrase that you provide to encrypt the backups sent to and stored on Azure Recovery Services vault. This passphrase isn't shared with Microsoft and needs to be saved in a secure location to ensure that the backups can be retrieved if the server backed up with MARS goes down.

For more information, see Save and manage MARS agent passphrase securely in Azure Key Vault.

Update Rollup 1 for Microsoft Azure Backup Server v4 is now generally available

Azure Backup now provides Update Rollup 1 for Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS) V4.

  • It contains new features, such as item-level recovery from online recovery points for VMware VMs, support for Windows and Basic SMTP authentication for MABS email reports and alerts, and other enhancements.
  • It also contains stability improvements and bug fixes on MABS V4.

For more information, see What's new in MABS.

SAP HANA instance snapshot backup support is now generally available

Azure Backup now supports SAP HANA instance snapshot backup and enhanced restore, which provides a cost-effective backup solution using managed disk incremental snapshots. Because instant backup uses snapshot, the effect on the database is minimum.

You can now take an instant snapshot of the entire HANA instance and backup- logs for all databases, with a single solution. It also enables you to do an instant restore of the entire instance with point-in-time recovery using logs over the snapshot.

Note

  • Currently, the snapshots are stored on your storage account/operational tier and isn't stored in Recovery Services vault.
  • Original Location Restore (OLR) is not supported.
  • For pricing, as per SAP advisory, you must do a weekly full backup + logs streaming/Backint based backup so that the existing protected instance fee and storage cost are applied. For snapshot backup, the snapshot data created by Azure Backup is saved in your storage account and incurs snapshot storage charges. Thus, in addition to streaming/Backint backup charges, you're charged for per GB data stored in your snapshots, which is charged separately. Learn more about Snapshot pricing and Streaming/Backint based backup pricing.

For more information, see Back up databases' instance snapshots.

Multi-user authorization using Resource Guard for Backup vault is now generally available

Azure Backup now supports multi-user authorization (MUA) that allows you to add an additional layer of protection to critical operations on your Backup vaults. For MUA, Azure Backup uses the Azure resource, Resource Guard, to ensure critical operations are performed only with applicable authorization.

For more information, see MUA for Backup vault.

Enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup is now generally available

Enhanced soft delete provides improvements to the existing soft delete feature. With enhanced soft delete, you now get the ability to make soft delete always-on, thus protecting it from being disabled by any malicious actors.

You can also customize soft delete retention period (for which soft deleted data must be retained). Enhanced soft delete is available for Recovery Services vaults and Backup vaults.

Note

Once you enable the always-on state for soft delete, you can't disable it for that vault.

For more information, see Enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup.

Save your MARS backup passphrase securely to Azure Key Vault (preview)

Azure Backup now enables you to save the MARS passphrase to Azure Key Vault automatically from the MARS console during registration or changing passphrase.

The MARS agent from Azure Backup requires a passphrase provided by the user to encrypt the backups sent to and stored on Azure Recovery Services Vault. This passphrase is not shared with Microsoft and needs to be saved in a secure location to ensure that the backups can be retrieved if the server backed up with MARS goes down.

For more information, see Save and manage MARS agent passphrase securely in Azure Key Vault.

Cross Region Restore for MARS Agent (preview)

You can now restore data from the secondary region for MARS Agent backups using Cross Region Restore on Recovery Services vaults with Geo-redundant storage (GRS) replication. You can use this capability to do recovery drills from the secondary region for audit or compliance. If disasters cause partial or complete unavailability of the primary region, you can directly access the backup data from the secondary region.

For more information, see Cross Region Restore for MARS (preview).

SAP HANA System Replication database backup support is now generally available

Azure Backup now supports backup of HANA database with HANA System Replication. Now, the log backups from the new primary node are accepted immediately; thus provides continuous database automatic protection,

This eliminates the need of manual intervention to continue backups on the new primary node during a failover. With the elimination of the need to trigger full backups for every failover, you can save costs and reduce time for continue protection.

For more information, see Back up a HANA system with replication enabled.

Cross Region Restore for PostgreSQL (preview)

Azure Backup allows you to replicate your backups to an additional Azure paired region by using Geo-redundant Storage (GRS) to protect your backups from regional outages. When you enable the backups with GRS, the backups in the secondary region become accessible only when Microsoft declares an outage in the primary region.

For more information, see Cross Region Restore support for PostgreSQL using Azure Backup.

Microsoft Azure Backup Server v4 is now generally available

Azure Backup now provides Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS) v4, the latest edition of on-premises backup solution.

  • It can protect and run on Windows Server 2022, Azure Stack HCI 22H2, vSphere 8.0, and SQL Server 2022.
  • It contains stability improvements and bug fixes on MABS v3 UR2.

For more information, see What's new in MABS.

Multiple backups per day for Azure VMs is now generally available

Azure Backup now enables you to create a backup policy to take multiple backups a day. With this capability, you can also define the duration in which your backup jobs would trigger and align your backup schedule with the working hours when there are frequent updates to Azure Virtual Machines.

For more information, see Back up an Azure VM using Enhanced policy.

Immutable vault for Azure Backup is now generally available

Azure Backup now supports immutable vaults that help you ensure that recovery points once created can't be deleted before their expiry as per the backup policy (expiry at the time at which the recovery point was created). You can also choose to make the immutability irreversible to offer maximum protection to your backup data, thus helping you protect your data better against various threats, including ransomware attacks and malicious actors.

For more information, see the concept of Immutable vault for Azure Backup.

Support for selective disk backup with enhanced policy for Azure VM is now generally available

Azure Backup now provides Selective Disk backup and restore capability to Enhanced policy. Using this capability, you can selectively back up a subset of the data disks that are attached to your VM, and then restore a subset of the disks that are available in a recovery point, both from instant restore and vault tier.

This is useful when you:

  • Manage critical data in a subset of the VM disks.
  • Use database backup solutions and want to back up only their OS disk to reduce cost.

For more information, see Selective disk backup and restore.

Azure Kubernetes Service backup (preview)

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) backup is a simple, cloud-native process to back up and restore the containerized applications and data running in AKS clusters. You can configure scheduled backup for both cluster state and application data (persistent volumes - CSI driver based Azure Disks).

The solution provides granular control to choose a specific namespace or an entire cluster to back up or restore with the ability to store backups locally in a blob container and as disk snapshots. With AKS backup, you can unlock end-to-end scenarios - operational recovery, cloning test or developer environments, or cluster upgrade scenarios.

AKS backup integrates with Backup center (with other backup management capabilities) to provide a single pane of glass that helps you govern, monitor, operate, and analyze backups at scale.

For more information, see Overview of AKS backup (preview).

Azure Blob vaulted backups (preview)

Azure Backup now enables you to perform a vaulted backup of block blob data in general-purpose v2 storage accounts to protect data against ransomware attacks or source data loss due to malicious or rogue admin. You can define the backup schedule to create recovery points and the retention settings that determine how long backups will be retained in the vault. You can configure and manage the vaulted and operational backups using a single backup policy.

Under vaulted backups, the data is copied and stored in the Backup vault. So, you get an offsite copy of data that can be retained for up to 10 years. If any data loss happens on the source account, you can trigger a restore to an alternate account and get access to your data. The vaulted backups can be managed at scale via the Backup center, and monitored via the rich alerting and reporting capabilities offered by the Azure Backup service.

If you're currently using operational backups, we recommend you to switch to vaulted backups for complete protection against different data loss scenarios.

For more information, see Azure Blob backup overview.

Multi-user authorization using Resource Guard for Backup vault (in preview)

Azure Backup now supports multi-user authorization (MUA) that allows you to add an additional layer of protection to critical operations on your Backup vaults. For MUA, Azure Backup uses the Azure resource, Resource Guard, to ensure critical operations are performed only with applicable authorization.

For more information, see MUA for Backup vault.

Enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup (preview)

Enhanced soft delete provides improvements to the existing soft delete feature. With enhanced soft delete, you can now make soft delete irreversible to prevent malicious actors from disabling it and deleting backups.

You can also customize soft delete retention period (for which soft deleted data must be retained). Enhanced soft delete is available for Recovery Services vaults and Backup vaults.

For more information, see Enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup.

Immutable vault for Azure Backup (in preview)

Azure Backup now supports immutable vaults that help you ensure that recovery points once created can't be deleted before their expiry as per the backup policy (expiry at the time at which the recovery point was created). You can also choose to make the immutability irreversible to offer maximum protection to your backup data, thus helping you protect your data better against various threats, including ransomware attacks and malicious actors.

For more information, see the concept of Immutable vault for Azure Backup (preview).

SAP HANA instance snapshot backup support (preview)

Azure Backup now supports SAP HANA instance snapshot backup that provides a cost-effective backup solution using Managed disk incremental snapshots. Because instant backup uses snapshot, the effect on the database is minimum.

You can now take an instant snapshot of the entire HANA instance and backup logs for all databases, with a single solution. It also enables you to instantly restore the entire instance with point-in-time recovery using logs over the snapshot.

For more information, see Back up databases' instance snapshots (preview).

SAP HANA System Replication database backup support (preview)

Azure Backup now supports backup of HANA database with HANA System Replication. Now, the log backups from the new primary node are accepted immediately; thus provides continuous database automatic protection,

This eliminates the need of manual intervention to continue backups on the new primary node during a failover. With the elimination of the need to trigger full backups for every failover, you can save costs and reduce time for continue protection.

For more information, see Back up a HANA system with replication enabled (preview).

Built-in Azure Monitor alerting for Azure Backup is now generally available

Azure Backup now offers a new and improved alerting solution via Azure Monitor. This solution provides multiple benefits, such as:

  • Ability to configure notifications to a wide range of notification channels.
  • Ability to select specific scenarios to get notified.
  • Ability to manage alerts and notifications programmatically.
  • Ability to have a consistent alert management experience for multiple Azure services, including Azure Backup.

If you're currently using the classic alerts solution, we recommend you to switch to Azure Monitor alerts. Now, Azure Backup provides a guided experience via Backup center that allows you to switch to built-in Azure Monitor alerts and notifications with a few clicks.

For more information, see Switch to Azure Monitor based alerts for Azure Backup.

Multi-user authorization using Resource Guard for Recovery Services vault is now generally available

Azure Backup now supports multi-user authorization (MUA) that allows you to add an additional layer of protection to critical operations on your Recovery Services vaults. For MUA, Azure Backup uses the Azure resource, Resource Guard, to ensure critical operations are performed only with applicable authorization.

For more information, see how to protect Recovery Services vault and manage critical operations with MUA.

Archive tier support for Azure Virtual Machines is now generally available

Azure Backup now supports the movement of recovery points to the Vault-archive tier for Azure Virtual Machines from the Azure portal. This allows you to move the archivable/recommended recovery points (corresponding to a backup item) to the Vault-archive tier at one go.

Azure Backup also supports Vault-archive tier for SQL Server in Azure VM and SAP HANA in Azure VM. The support has been extended via Azure portal.

For more information, see Archive tier support in Azure Backup.

Multiple backups per day for Azure Files is now generally available

Low RPO (Recovery Point Objective) is a key requirement for Azure Files that contains the frequently updated, business-critical data. To ensure minimal data loss if a disaster or unwanted changes to file share content, you may prefer to take backups more frequently than once a day.

Using Azure Backup, you can create a backup policy or modify an existing backup policy to take multiple snapshots in a day. This capability allows you to define the duration in which your backup jobs will run. Therefore, you can align your backup schedule with the working hours when there are frequent updates to Azure Files content. With this release, you can also configure policy for multiple backups per day using Azure PowerShell and Azure CLI.

For more information, see how to configure multiple backups per day via backup policy.

Back up Azure Database for PostgreSQL is now generally available

Azure Backup and Azure Database services together help you to build an enterprise-class backup solution for Azure PostgreSQL (is now generally available). You can meet your data protection and compliance needs with a customer-controlled backup policy that enables retention of backups for up to 10 years.

With this, you've granular control to manage the backup and restore operations at the individual database level. Likewise, you can restore across PostgreSQL versions or to blob storage with ease. Besides using the Azure portal to perform the PostgreSQL database protection operations, you can also use the PowerShell, CLI, and REST API clients.

For more information, see Azure Database for PostgreSQL backup.

Archive Tier support for SQL Server/ SAP HANA in Azure VM from Azure portal

Azure Backup now supports the movement of recovery points to the Vault-archive tier for SQL Server and SAP HANA in Azure Virtual Machines from the Azure portal. This allows you to move the archivable recovery points corresponding to a particular database to the Vault-archive tier at one go.

Also, the support is extended via Azure CLI for the above workloads, along with Azure Virtual Machines (in preview).

For more information, see Archive Tier support in Azure Backup.

Multi-user authorization using Resource Guard for Recovery Services vault (in preview)

Azure Backup now supports multi-user authorization (MUA) that allows you to add an additional layer of protection to critical operations on your Recovery Services vaults. For MUA, Azure Backup uses the Azure resource, Resource Guard, to ensure critical operations are performed only with applicable authorization.

For more information, see how to protect Recovery Services vault and manage critical operations with MUA.

Multiple backups per day for Azure Files (in preview)

Low RPO (Recovery Point Objective) is a key requirement for Azure Files that contains the frequently updated, business-critical data. To ensure minimal data loss if a disaster or unwanted changes to file share content, you may prefer to take backups more frequently than once a day.

Using Azure Backup, you can now create a backup policy or modify an existing backup policy to take multiple snapshots in a day. With this capability, you can also define the duration in which your backup jobs would trigger. This capability empowers you to align your backup schedule with the working hours when there are frequent updates to Azure Files content.

For more information, see how to configure multiple backups per day via backup policy.

Azure Backup metrics and metrics alerts (in preview)

Azure Backup now provides a set of built-in metrics via Azure Monitor that allows you to monitor the health of your backups. You can also configure alert rules that trigger alerts when metrics exceed the defined thresholds.

Azure Backup offers the following key capabilities:

  • Ability to view out-of-the-box metrics related to the backup and restore health of your backup items along with associated trends.
  • Ability to write custom alert rules on these metrics to efficiently monitor the health of your backup items.
  • Ability to route fired metric alerts to various notification channels that Azure Monitor supports, such as email, ITSM, webhook, logic apps, and so on.

Currently, Azure Backup supports built-in metrics for the following workload types:

  • Azure VM
  • SQL databases in Azure VM
  • SAP HANA databases in Azure VM
  • Azure Files.

For more information, see Monitor the health of your backups using Azure Backup Metrics (preview).

Archive Tier support for SQL Server in Azure VM for Azure Backup is now generally available

Azure Backup allows you to move your long-term retention points for Azure Virtual Machines and SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines to the low-cost Archive Tier. You can also restore from the recovery points in the Vault-archive tier.

In addition to the capability to move the recovery points:

  • Azure Backup provides recommendations to move a specific set of recovery points for Azure Virtual Machine backups that will ensure cost savings.
  • You have the capability to move all their recovery points for a particular backup item at one go using sample scripts.
  • You can view Archive storage usage on the Vault dashboard.

For more information, see Archive Tier support.

Backup for Azure Blobs is now generally available

Operational backup for Azure Blobs is a managed-data protection solution that lets you protect your block blob data from various data loss scenarios, such as blob corruptions, blob deletions, and accidental deletion of storage accounts.

Being an operational backup solution, the backup data is stored locally in the source storage account, and can be recovered from a selected point-in-time, giving you a simple and cost-effective means to protect your blob data. To do this, the solution uses the blob point-in-time restore capability available from blob storage.

Operational backup for blobs integrates with the Azure Backup management tools, including Backup Center, to help you manage the protection of your blob data effectively and at-scale. In addition to previously available capabilities, you can now configure and manage operational backup for blobs using the Data protection view of the storage accounts, also through PowerShell. Also, Backup now gives you an enhanced experience for managing role assignments required for configuring operational backup.

For more information, see Overview of operational backup for Azure Blobs.

Enhancements to encryption using customer-managed keys for Azure Backup (in preview)

Azure Backup now provides enhanced capabilities (in preview) to manage encryption with customer-managed keys. Azure Backup allows you to bring in your own keys to encrypt the backup data in the Recovery Services vaults, thus providing you with better control.

  • Supports user-assigned managed identities to grant permissions to the keys to manage data encryption in the Recovery Services vault.
  • Enables encryption with customer-managed keys while creating a Recovery Services vault.

    Note

    This feature is currently in limited preview. To sign up, fill this form, and write to us at AskAzureBackupTeam@microsoft.com.

  • Allows you to use Azure Policies to audit and enforce encryption using customer-managed keys.

Note

  • The above capabilities are supported through the Azure portal only, PowerShell is currently not supported.
    If you are using PowerShell for managing encryption keys for Backup, we do not recommend to update the keys from the portal.
    If you update the key from the portal, you can’t use PowerShell to update the encryption key further, till a PowerShell update to support the new model is available. However, you can continue updating the key from the Azure portal.
  • You can use the audit policy for auditing vaults with encryption using customer-managed keys that are enabled after 04/01/2021.
  • For vaults with the CMK encryption enabled before this date, the policy might fail to apply, or might show false negative results (that is, these vaults may be reported as non-compliant, despite having CMK encryption enabled). Learn more.

For more information, see Encryption for Azure Backup using customer-managed keys.

Azure Disk Backup is now generally available

Azure Backup offers snapshot lifecycle management to Azure Managed Disks by automating periodic creation of snapshots and retaining these for configured durations using Backup policy.

For more information, see Overview of Azure Disk Backup.

Backup center is now generally available

Backup center simplifies data protection management at-scale by enabling you to discover, govern, monitor, operate, and optimize backup management from one single central console.

For more information, see Overview of Backup Center.

Archive Tier support for Azure Backup (in preview)

Azure Backup now allows you to reduce the cost of long-term retention backups with the availability of Archive Tier for Azure virtual machines and SQL Server in Azure virtual machines.

For more information, see Archive Tier support (Preview).

Backup for Azure Blobs (in preview)

Operational backup for Blobs is a managed, local data protection solution that lets you protect your block blobs from various data loss scenarios like corruptions, blob deletions, and accidental storage account deletion. The data is stored locally within the source storage account itself and can be recovered to a selected point in time whenever needed. So it provides a simple, secure, and cost-effective means to protect your blobs.

Operational backup for Blobs integrates with Backup Center, among other Backup management capabilities, to provide a single pane of glass that can help you govern, monitor, operate, and analyze backups at scale.

For more information, see Overview of operational backup for Azure Blobs (in preview).

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