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Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Azure Backup

Composite Score

9.0 /10

CX Score

9.3 /10

223 Reviews Write a Review

What is Microsoft Azure Backup?

Protect your data with a cloud-based backup as a service Keep your data in Azure and on-premises safe. Backup supports VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines running on Linux and Windows, as well as physical Windows Servers.

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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Azure Backup won the following awards in the Backup and Availability category

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2025 Data Quadrant Champion

Latest Award, 2025

2 Top Rated Capabilities

4 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2025

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2025

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

1 Top Rated Capabilities

0 Top Rated Features

2024

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

2023

1 Top Rated Capabilities

0 Top Rated Features

2023

2 Top Rated Capabilities

0 Top Rated Features

2022

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022

Strategy and Innovation
Product Impact

2022

2021 Emotional Footprint Champion

2021

Microsoft Azure Backup Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

89 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+94 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Microsoft Azure Backup?

3% Negative

5% Neutral

92% Positive

Pros

Enables Productivity
Trustworthy
Saves Time
Helps Innovate

Feature Ratings

Average 85

FOUR EYES principle

Integration with Other Security Software

Backup Automation

Recovery Automation

Analytics

Virtual Machine Backup

Backup of Cloud Based Data

Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery

Deduplication Implementation

Integration With Storage Arrays

Backup Monitoring and Reporting

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Vendor Support

Breadth of Features

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Usability and Intuitiveness

Microsoft Azure Backup Reviews

Bhavik S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2025

“Secure and Scalable Solution”

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Backup from other similar products?

- Cloud-Native Integration with Azure - Scalability & Cost Efficiency - Security & Compliance

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

One of the best aspects of Microsoft Azure Backup is its seamless integration with the Azure ecosystem.

What do you dislike most about this product?

One of the main downsides of Microsoft Azure Backup is its complex pricing structure. Another drawback is the lack of granular backup control for certain workloads.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

- Understand Your Backup Needs - Optimize Costs Before Deployment - Plan for Security & Disaster Recovery

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Ramy S.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2025

Reliable data backup and recovery solution.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Backup from other similar products?

Azure Backup seamlessly integrates with other Azure services, such as Azure virtual machines, Azure SQL database, and Storage. which simplifies the backup and recovery processes for our business analytics workloads within Azure.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Azure Backup provides a central location to manage all backups and has flexible pricing options for different backup workloads. The service is scalable enough to handle massive amounts of data using the Azure cloud infrastructure.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Despite the benefits of Azure Backup's pricing flexibility, users need to carefully analyze the available pricing options to optimize costs and make the right decision.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It is important to have a well-rounded experience with the Azure platform and the deployment dependencies of its services to be able to select the optimal pricing tier for seamless performance and scalability of your current and potential workloads.

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy

Naveen G.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2025

"Fantastic product!"

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Backup from other similar products?

Native Azure Support: Designed specifically for Azure workloads (e.g., VMs, SQL databases, Azure Files). Hybrid Cloud Backup: Supports on-premises workloads (Windows/Linux servers, files/folders) alongside cloud resources. Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Integration: Simplifies backup management through Azure Portal, PowerShell, or CLI.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Azure Site Recovery Integration: Combines backup with disaster recovery for comprehensive business continuity. Cross-Region Restore: Restore backups to a secondary Azure region for disaster recovery scenarios. Soft Delete: Protects against accidental deletion by retaining backups for 14 days after deletion.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing as of now

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Azure Backup is not just a standalone tool—it’s part of a comprehensive cloud platform that offers end-to-end data protection, hybrid flexibility, and enterprise-grade security. Its tight integration with Azure services makes it ideal for organizations already using or planning to adopt Azure.

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Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2021 Emotional Footprint Champion

Microsoft Azure Backup Ratings

89 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+94 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Microsoft Azure Backup?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

FOUR EYES principle Require 2 administrators to approve changes

Integration with Other Security Software Service will integrate with existing security systems, such as firewalls, SOAR, SIEM, endpoint security, or other security components.

Backup Automation Solution automates backup, recovery and remediation tasks using RestAPI and CLI to integrate with 3rd party solutions, reduce cost and enforce standards.

Recovery Automation Orchestrate faster recover of the right pieces to bring them up in the right order and built automated recovery plans

Analytics Built-in real-time and historical reporting and analytics on SLAs, performance, and resource consumption, as well as predictive capabilities to plan & optimize.

Virtual Machine Backup Automatically discovers and protects VMs as they come online, move, and change. Production VMs are replicated to a secondary data store.

Backup of Cloud Based Data In addition to targeting backups to the cloud, the solution also has the capability to back up primary data and services already in the cloud.

Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery Onsite backup data is replicated and stored to a public cloud (AWS, Azure). Can also include restore-to-cloud capabilities for Disaster Recovery as a Service.

Deduplication Implementation Deduplication of redundant data blocks is implemented by the solution. Deduplication can be at source, target, or globally (source and target).

Integration With Storage Arrays Integrates with APIs from major storage vendors (NetApp, HP, Dell EMC) to leverage capabilities in these arrays such as data snapshots and replication.

Backup Monitoring and Reporting Backup and replication are continually monitored for status and effectiveness. Detailed reporting is available on successful and unsuccessful operations.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Microsoft Azure Backup Reviews

Bhavik S.

“Secure and Scalable Solution”

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Ramy S.

Reliable data backup and recovery solution.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Naveen G.

"Fantastic product!"

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

FOUR EYES principle

Integration with Other Security Software

Backup Automation

Recovery Automation

Analytics

Virtual Machine Backup

Backup of Cloud Based Data

Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery

Deduplication Implementation

Integration With Storage Arrays

Backup Monitoring and Reporting

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Vendor Support

Breadth of Features

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Usability and Intuitiveness