3 documented Azure Backup cost inefficiencies, each with how to detect it and how to fix it.
Azure BackupCER-0278
Backup data persists longer than intended due to misaligned or outdated retention policies. It often arises when retention requirements change over time, but older recovery points are not evaluated or cleaned up accordingly. In some cases,...
Azure BackupCER-0286
A protected resource (such as a virtual machine, database, or file share) is decommissioned without explicitly stopping backup protection. In these cases, Azure Backup keeps applying the retention policy to older recovery points, but the...
Azure BackupCER-0446
Azure Backup protects SQL Server and SAP HANA databases running in Azure VMs with streaming workload backups: full, differential (and for HANA, incremental) and log backups written to a Recovery Services vault. When a SQL Server backup...
