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Hi Fasttrack team,
We have a requirement to have an offsite backup for our Azure Infrastructure. Our data centre offsite backups are done by a third party.
This a cyber insurance requirement.
Does Microsoft provide an offsite backup for Australian regions ?
We want these immutable backups to be stored offsite / isolated from Azure DCs in Southeast/east/act region.
Regards,
Sumit Khapli
Backups can be stored in a Recovery Services vault in the same region as the source data, or they can be stored in a geo-redundant Recovery Services vault. A geo-redundant Recovery Services vault replicates data to a secondary, paired region far from the primary location, allowing you to achieve the geographic diversity you seek. If the primary region becomes inaccessible, you can restore from secondary region data. Microsoft ensures that these paired regions are always separated by at least 300 miles to reduce the possibility of both regions being affected by a natural disaster.
https://zcusa.951200.xyz/en-us/azure/reliability/cross-region-replication-azure
How is Microsoft making sure that backups are safe from ransome ware attacks? Is the recovery services vault still on azure DCs or kept separately to an offsite location?
For Azure Backup, Microsoft supports Azure Blob Storage's Immutable feature, which ensures that stored data cannot be deleted or altered by any user, including those with adequate permissions, for a specified retention period.