Microsoft Azure Storage Snapshots (GB)
Secure your critical business data with Microsoft Azure Locally Redundant Storage Snapshots, providing granular point-in-time recovery capabilities for your storage accounts.
- Data Protection: Coverage for accidental deletions or data corruption with point-in-time recovery.
- Operational Continuity: Protection against data loss events, ensuring your business applications remain accessible.
- Compliance Support: Entitlement to maintain data versions for regulatory or audit requirements.
- Cost Efficiency: Utilize snapshots for efficient data backup and recovery without full data duplication.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering provides access to Microsoft Azure Locally Redundant Storage (LRS) snapshots, a feature designed to create point-in-time copies of your data within a storage account. These snapshots serve as a crucial layer of data protection, enabling recovery from accidental deletions, data corruption, or application errors.
This service is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations who manage their own IT infrastructure. It integrates directly with Azure Storage services, providing a foundational data resilience capability for applications and data hosted in the Azure cloud.
- Point-in-Time Recovery: Capture snapshots of block blobs, page blobs, or disk snapshots at specific moments.
- Data Resilience: Protect against data loss due to accidental deletion, corruption, or application issues.
- Cost-Effective Backup: Store snapshots independently from the base blob, offering a cost-efficient backup solution.
- Granular Control: Manage snapshot lifecycle and retention policies to meet business and compliance needs.
- Regional Redundancy: Data is replicated within a single data center in the chosen Azure region for local redundancy.
Azure LRS Snapshots offer essential data protection for businesses seeking reliable recovery without the complexity of enterprise-level backup solutions.
What This Enables
Enable granular data recovery for critical applications
Enable teams to restore specific versions of data from a point in time, minimizing downtime after accidental data deletion or corruption. Streamline recovery processes by having readily available data copies for critical business systems.
cloud-native applications, virtual machine disks, data archives, business continuity planning
Streamline compliance and audit data retention
Streamline the process of meeting regulatory requirements by maintaining historical data versions. Automate the capture and retention of data snapshots to satisfy audit trails and compliance mandates without manual intervention.
regulated data storage, long-term data archiving, audit trail maintenance, legal hold requirements
Automate cost-effective data backup strategies
Automate the creation of point-in-time data backups that are stored independently from the primary data. Enable efficient data protection by leveraging snapshots as a cost-effective alternative to full data replication for certain scenarios.
disaster recovery planning, development and testing environments, data versioning needs, budget-conscious data protection
Key Features
Locally Redundant Storage (LRS)
Ensures data is replicated within a single data center in the Azure region, providing protection against hardware failures within that facility.
Point-in-Time Snapshots
Allows for the recovery of data to a specific moment in time, crucial for rectifying accidental data loss or corruption.
Independent Snapshot Storage
Snapshots are stored separately from the base blob, meaning they are not affected if the base blob is deleted or corrupted.
Cost-Effective Data Protection
Provides a more economical way to back up data compared to full data copies, especially for large datasets.
Azure Platform Integration
Seamlessly integrates with Azure Storage accounts, managed through familiar Azure tools and APIs.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust data protection and retention capabilities to meet strict regulatory compliance standards like SOX and GDPR, making point-in-time snapshots essential for auditability and recovery.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must adhere to HIPAA regulations, which mandate the protection and availability of patient data, necessitating reliable data recovery solutions like Azure snapshots for critical health records.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services organizations handle sensitive client data and must maintain data integrity and availability for case management and compliance, benefiting from granular data recovery options.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers rely on operational data for production, supply chain, and quality control; protecting this data with Azure snapshots ensures business continuity and minimizes disruption from potential data loss events.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between a snapshot and a full backup?
A snapshot is a point-in-time copy of a blob at a specific moment. A full backup typically involves copying all data to a separate location and may include more comprehensive metadata and retention policies.
How are snapshots billed?
Snapshots are billed based on the amount of data they store, charged at the same rate as standard storage for the tier they are associated with. Locally redundant storage incurs specific replication costs.
Can I recover individual files from a snapshot?
You can recover data by creating a new blob from a snapshot. For file-level recovery within a file system hosted on Azure disks, you would typically restore the entire disk from its snapshot.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
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