Calculate Cost of Azure Backup

Cost of Azure Backup is a reliable, inexpensive and scalable data protection solution for backing up on-premises data to the cloud.

Safeguard your critical business data with zero capital investment and minimal operational expense.

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The price of Azure Backup is dependent on the size of each protected instance. Azure Storage is a separate charge. Customers have the flexibility to choose between

LOCALLY REDUNDANT STORAGE (LRS)
ZONE REDUNDANT STORAGE (ZRS)
GEOGRAPHICALLY REDUNDANT STORAGE (GRS)
READ-ACCESS GEOGRAPHICALLY REDUNDANT STORAGE (RA-GRS)

Block Blobs

For streaming and storing documents, videos, pictures, backups and other unstructured text or binary data.

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Azure Backup Example

Assume a Windows Server that is used for file sharing of office documents and PDF files, which has a total file size of 400Gb.

Backup Protected Instance	400Gb	US$10 for protected instance
Storage Cost for the Full Backup	Locally Redundant Storage (LRS)	400Gb x US$0.024 = US$9.60
Data Changes between Backup	20% of Data	0.2 x 400Gb = 80Gb
Backup Schedule	Daily – 14 days Weekly – 24 weeks Monthly – 12 months	50 copies
Total Disk Space required for a Backup Retention Period	50 copies	80Gb x 50 copies = 4000Gb
Total Disk Space After Data Compression	10%	4000Gb x 0.9 = 3600Gb
Storage Cost for the Incremental Backup		3600Gb x US$0.024 = US$86.40