Microsoft Azure Practices Guide
Microsoft Azure Practices Guide
11 PagesThis guide explains how organizations should design secure and cost-efficient backup strategies in Azure’s shared-responsibility model. It outlines best practices including isolation of backups, RBAC enforcement, immutability, encryption, network restrictions, classification of workloads, and tiered protection. Compliance considerations such as retention, location, lifecycle automation, and audit readiness are emphasized. The document also details flexible restore options, metering and cost management, monitoring, and long-term operational optimization using policy-driven protection via Veeam Data Cloud for Azure.
