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 stiches 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.
Presenter:
• Kiran Maruthi Bhukya, Product Manager 2, Microsoft Azure BCDR
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
► Recommended Resources:
• Selective disk backup and restore for Azure virtual machines: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/selective-disk-backup-restore
• Archive Tier in Azure Backup overview: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/archive-tier-support
• Optimize costs for Azure Backup Storage with reserved capacity: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-reserved-pricing-optimize-cost
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