Azure Backup is a service provided by Microsoft Azure to back up and restore our data over the Microsoft cloud. Azure Backup replaces our existing on-premises or off-site backup solution with a cloud-based solution that is reliable, secure, and cost-competitive. It is not only used as cloud storage to back-up our data to the cloud, but we can also use our existing local disc to back-up the data.

So, Azure backup works with this heterogeneous storage environment with the combination of on-premises storage and also cloud storage. Whenever Azure backup uses local storage, we’ll not get charged for it. You will only get charged when the data is backed up in the cloud.

Advantages of Azure Backup

Automatic storage management
Unlimited scaling
Multiple Storage options
Application consistent backup
Long-Term retention

Working of Azure backup service

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The first thing we do when we’re using Azure backup is to define backup policy. The policy describes how frequently you need to take a backup and also which target you need to backup. After that, we also identify the destination where the data need to get stored, which in most cases, it’s going to be recovery services vault. Backup of the data will not get stored in a storage account, and it will be stored in the recovery service vault, which is also an online storage facility where we can save the backup of all our virtual machines.

Components of Azure Backup service

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How to take the backup of VM using the Azure backup

Step 1: Go into Virtual Machine and click on Backup. The following window will appear once you click on backup.

Step 2: Configure the Backup policy according to your requirements and Click on Enable Back up.

Step 3: Now, go to the resource group and click on the Recovery Service vault that you have created, as shown below.

Step 4: In case you would like to take a backup from the recovery services vault and choose different settings, then you can click on backup and then select where your workload is running.

Azure Virtual Machine Security

There are many services available to secure our virtual machine.

Azure Active Directory

By using the Azure Active Directory, we can control access to our virtual machines to different users or groups of users. When we create a virtual machine, we can assign a user to it, and while we are assigning the user to the virtual machine, we will also associate a particular rule to them. That role defines the level of access that the user will have on our virtual machine.
Users, groups, and applications from that directory can manage resources in the Azure subscription.
It grants access by assigning the appropriate RBAC role to users, groups, and applications at a certain scope. The scope of a role assignment can be a subscription, a resource group, or a single resource.
Azure RBAC has three essential roles that apply to all resource types:
- Owner: They have full access to all resources, including the right to delegate access to others.
- Contributor: They can create and manage all types of Azure resources but can’t grant access to others.
- Reader: They can only view existing Azure resources.

Azure security center

The Azure security center identifies potential virtual machine (VM) configuration issues and targeted security threats. These might include VMs that are missing network security groups, unencrypted disks, and brute-force Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) attacks.

We can customize the recommendations we would like to see from the Security Center using security policies.

Set up data collection
Set up security policies
View VM configuration health
Remediate configuration issues
View detected threats

Managed Service Identity

It is newly introduced in Azure. Earlier, what used to happen was whenever we’re deploying an application into a virtual machine, we generally have user id and password within a configuration file of a folder of that application. But if someone gets access to that virtual machine, they can be able to go to the configuration file and view that also. To further increase the security of our application code and safety of services that are being accessed by application code, we can use Managed Service Identity.

Other Security Features

Network security group: To filter the traffic in and out of the virtual machine.
Microsoft Antimalware for Azure: We can install on our Azure virtual machines to secure our machines against any malware.
Encryption: We can enable Azure Disk Encryption.
Key Vault and SSH Keys: we can use key vault to store the certificates or any sensitive key.
Policies: All the security-related policies we can apply using it.

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