Azure Virtual Machine Backup Pricing

Reserved virtual machine instances.

Azure virtual machine backup pricing.

Pricing for spot vms is variable based on region and sku. For more information see vm pricing for linux and windows. An overview of azure vm backup. The commitment is made up front and in return you get up to 72 percent price savings compared to pay as you go pricing.

An azure reserved virtual machine instance is an advanced purchase of a virtual machine for one or three years in a specified region. Azure backup automatically handles storage for the vault. For example the value 0 98765would be a max price of 0 98765 usd per hour. With variable pricing you have option to set a max price in us dollars usd using up to 5 decimal places.

If the virtual machine is also backed up to azure backup it is counted as another protected instance. 11 minutes to read 13. Azure backup provides independent and isolated backups to guard against unintended destruction of the data on your vms. Virtual machine scale sets manage and scale up to thousands of linux and windows virtual machines azure kubernetes service aks simplify the deployment management and operations of kubernetes azure spring cloud a fully managed spring cloud service built and operated with vmware.

Number of protected instances there is a fixed price for each on premise machine or azure vm you are backing up storage priced per gb month with two storage levels locally redundant storage lrs or geo redundant storage grs. This article describes how the azure backup service backs up azure virtual machines vms. For sql server on azure vms you can use native backup and restore techniques using attached disks on the vm for the destination of the backup files. For more information on how azure names its vms see azure virtual machine sizes naming conventions.

Since the virtual machine size is between 50gb and 500gb its price is also per month. Find and compare azure virtual machines specs and pricing on a one page. For information about pricing of the various sizes see the pricing pages for linux or windows. A recovery services vault is an entity that stores the backups and recovery points created over time.

However there is a limit to the number of disks you can attach to an azure virtual machine based on the size of the virtual machine. Check column best region price it will help you to find in what region that vm is cheaper also you should know that the price in different currencies is different sometimes the difference is significant check this page the data updated daily from azure api and can be not accurate. To see general limits on azure vms see azure subscription and service limits quotas and constraints. See how storage settings can be changed.

The recovery services vault also contains the backup policies that are associated with the protected virtual machines. There is also the overhead of disk management to consider.