Episode

Optimize your data protection costs with Azure Backup

with Kiran Maruthi Bhukya

Inside Azure for IT

This video showcases how Azure Backup customers can optimize and save costs. Based on usage projections leverage Reserved Capacity Pricing which lowers costs compared to pay-as-you-go rates. To automatically move Long Term Retention (LTR) backup data to Vault-Archive tier, enable Smart Tiering. Choose to backup only selected disks, utilize different storage for dev/test environments, and clean up inactive or deleted data sources. Use the right policy for workloads too—Azure Backup automatically stitches together the full, differential/incremental, and log backups to provide data for a specific point in time. For database backups, opt to have weekly full backups instead of daily full backups to reduce backup costs significantly.

Chapters

  • 00:23 - BCDR Cost Control Challenges
  • 00:53 - Azure Backup Overview
  • 02:06 - Azure Backup Pricing
  • 04:00 - Plan and Optimize without constraints
  • 04:46 - Budget your costs using Pricing Calculator
  • 05:55 - Reduce cost with Reserved Capacity for Azure Backup
  • 09:29 - Demo for Reserved Capacity for Azure Backup
  • 14:25 - Storage Redundancy Choices
  • 16:12 - Selective Disk Backup
  • 16:50 - Eliminating inactive data source backups
  • 17:57 - Optimizing backup policy configuration
  • 19:00 - Reduce cost with smart tiering to vault-archive tier

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Azure Backup