Azure Backup 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Azure Backup

4.6

(158)

Pricing

Starting at $5.00 per month

About Azure Backup

Azure Backup is a cloud-based backup solution, which helps businesses create policies and secure a variety of enterprise workloads such as Azure Virtual Machines, SQL and SAP databases and Azure file shares. Other features include reporting, customer managed keys, private endpoints, data export and more.

The application enables IT teams to manage, monitor and optimize data protection and restore data from virtual machines with application consistency in Windows. Administrators can track the entire backup estate via the backup center module. It also lets professionals audit and analyze the backup data using historical patterns. Security teams can protect data against ransomware attacks through multiple user authentication and role-based access control.

Pricing is based on the amount of storage required and support is extended via documentation.

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Azure Backup Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $5.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Backup for Azure VMs and on-premises servers

$5.00

per month

Plan includes:

Backup Storage
Early Deletion
Rehydration

Backup for SQL Server on Azure VMs

$30.00

per month

Plan includes:

Backup Storage

Backup for SAP HANA on Azure VMs

$98.94

per month

Plan includes:

Backup Storage

Backup for Azure Files

$5.00

per month

Plan includes:

Create recovery points

Back up for Azure Database for PostgreSQL

$7.50

per month

Plan includes:

Backup Storage
Early Deletion
Rehydration

Azure Backup Features

Popular features found in Backup
Backup Log
Backup Scheduling
Cloud Backup
Compression
Continuous Backup
Incremental Backup
Local Server Options
More features of Azure Backup
Encryption

Azure Backup User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

58%

40%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.3

Value for money

4.2

Customer support

4.2

Functionality

4.4

alfredo r.

Verified reviewer

51-200 employees

Used other for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

There are some awesome backup solutions out there, I'm talking about products born in virtualization

Ratings Breakdown

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Pros:

1966/5000 There are some impressive backup solutions out there, I'm talking about products born in virtualization ... and not those designed for tape backup 20 years ago that some of you buy because that's what they've always bought. Some of the excellent products are even advertised on this site. They have their own unique approaches and points of sale, which I should applaud, and I encourage you to visit their sites and try their free trial versions. Then you have options, and that's a very good thing. We use a lot of DPM and store our long term in Azure, as described by Aiden. I want to share some important obstacles that we have come across so you can benefit from our experiences. 1) We had a DPM protection group with 76 protected Hyper-V virtual machines. This protection group was programmed to send recovery points to Azure all at once. 76 was too much and the OBEngine.exe service (Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Agent) was blocked every night, so I had to restart the OBEngine service and manually restart these online backups every day. By splitting the protection group into several smaller protection groups (each protecting about 20 Hyper-V servers instead of 76) and scheduling them to send recovery points to Azure at different times of the night, the problem was solved. I do not think this is a bandwidth problem (since we have a lot) but that the OBEngine service was being overwhelmed. The errors I found in DPM every morning clearly indicated that the OBEngine

Cons:

It lacks options for life cycle management. - Some of the functions only work in the classic portal. The reliability of the services depends on the technological and financial capacity of the providers of services in the cloud. The information of the company must go through different nodes to reach its destination, each of them (and its channels) are a source of insecurity. The centralization of the applications and the storage of the data originates an interdependence of the service providers. It is useful if you are not familiar with Azure to take an online training course that will definitely take you a long way to master it and increase your confidence in the product. It tends to use resources and when the VM goes down it is slow and freezes. the dashboard design is confusing AF, it is difficult to find things. You pay the support, or send them a tweet and cross your fingers. Billing is confusing, especially at the beginning, and it is impossible to estimate costs without seeing the use of an entire application / site. infrastructure as a service allows me to free up time and resources until then to maintain its own infrastructure, security measures are beyond the reach of most companies, security regulations give customers the confidence that their data will be totally protected. The support was incomplete (my experience of 1 in 18 months was very disappointing). In summary, regardless of what the system tells you, if you do not buy a help plan, it is SOL

vikas k.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

Excellent cloud storage service provided by Microsoft for smooth business experience

Overall, Azure backup is an excellent way for backing up all business data with minimal configuration required for setting it up. Azure backup can be operated in the Azure portal in a really easy way and minimizes time for backup storage, increases retention period, and improved the recovery of the database. Azure backup service can be used with the Pay-as-you-go model which is nothing but only involves operational expenditure and huge capital expenditure can be saved and invested further to improvise other business aspects.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Backup maintenance in the Azure cloud is taken care of by Microsoft itself and no physical hardware is required. Hence, no cost is required for capital expenditure (CapEx).

Cons:

There are no cons as such for Azure Backup but data latency can be improved while recovering database from its backup image.

Verified

Reviewer

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2018

One of Microsofts more expensive products, with average delivery.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Great integration with other Microsoft tools, and even other operating systems. User-friendly for storing data (Very secure,) great for beginners to set up.

Cons:

Pricing is affordable but can get very expensive right away. The pay-as-you-go option is deceptive. Tech support is at an additional cost.

Chris M.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2019

Great backup system

Set this up for a client with offices throughout the world. It was great, as all I needed to do was remote in and install the agent. Then we are backing up. Setup took 2 hours and we were running. Bad side is your are network dependent. We had one office in Jakarta that had a terrible network, and took months to get the initial backup. The problem is they had months of changes that didn't get backed up. Server eventually needed a recover, and pulling from the cloud there was not an option. But if you want a good price for the options, and you have a good network bandwidth, it's a great tool.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Cloud based backup. Easy to use and configure.

Cons:

Back ups are completely dependent on your office network speed.

Jaidev S.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2018

Microsoft Azure - Cloud based backup and restore

After shifting on Azure Backup we reduced hardware cost but increased the data security, access over the network. Now our data is more secure and we are not worry about disaster.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

MS Azure is easy to use and we can customize the backup frequency as per the need. Backup schedule during working hours not impacting much on our network. After using this recovery task become pretty easy. Now we are paying only for that what we are using and we can change this usage limit at anytime. Its automatically restoration service is amazing feature.

Cons:

It does require a bit expertise to manage the server monitoring on cloud.

Felipe R.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2019

Is nice but

So far so good, we manage to solve the issues we faced some days

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I love that the backup goes directly to the cloud, and even that slows down the Servers and the network is not that bad and you can schedule the replications time.

Cons:

You get fail notifications, but if you want success notifications there is no way to do it. In case of support need it you need to pay more even when you are already paying a lot for the service

Reasons for choosing Azure Backup

to try and compare

Mark N.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2020

Cost effective solution

A reliable and trustworthy backup source

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Azure works so well within the Microsoft world, it seamlessly integrates with most Microsoft applications. The security of having cloud integration gives you peace of mind that your files are secure in the cloud. You can also set Azure to backup automatically at pre-configured times.

Cons:

Access to training was a bit hard to find, and if you want any support, thats gonna cost you over and above what your paying for the service.

Michael S.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2018

Great software - local US based servers a plus

We use their cloud servers and cloud storage to manage and maintain client based servers that our running our software in the cloud. this is typically the case when they dont want to have to manage an onsite server, OS updates, anti-virus, etc.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to use and with what we do, we require US based servers - something the AWS does not guarantee since they use servers in China as well.

Cons:

Price can be a little high, but with their recent adjustments it brought it more in line with Google and Amazon.

Rochak A.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2021

Excellent Software - reliable and must have solution for any Cloud environment

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Pros:

Azure backup is necessary for any company going cloud these dates. It helps schedule automated backups for virtual machines Highly flexible - you can schedule days and frequency Reliable - with good logging and notification functionality Compliance friendly - reports can be used to satisfy internal and external compliance

Cons:

None really Continous new features added to AZURE Backup to include more locations for backup would be great

Dana S.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2018

Easy to use backup system

Good solution for websites backup/clone

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

Easy to integrate with WordPress, via a simple plugin I got a daily backup of my websites direct to Azure, no need to worries about website lost or hack

Cons:

Price system it's too confusing, It is very difficult to figure out how much will cost you as you are not sure at beginning how much storage you need

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