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Will your backup services incur other costs during backup?
It varies depending upon the backup services used. Generally, if you only use the Microsoft Entra ID service and Admin Portal Settings service, you will not experience additional costs for backup.
If your subscription contains Azure VM, Azure Storage, Amazon EC2, or Azure SQL, your backup services may incur additional costs on the protected Azure VM and Storage, Amazon EC2 instance, or Azure SQL database for data transfer, snapshots, operations, or API calls, etc. For details, refer to the table below:
| Service | Additional Costs | Pricing Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Azure VM | SnapshotsThe cost could be higher if you perform more backups and keeps more snapshots. | For the snapshots pricing, refer to this Microsoft page. |
| Azure VM | Data transferThe cost will increase if the data is transferred out of the region where the Azure VMs reside or out of Azure, especially if you are using different storage types. | For details, refer to this Microsoft page: Bandwidth pricing. |
| Azure VM | Index generation for exporting VM filesThe cost will increase if the Azure VMs to protect are in a region different from where your AOS is signed up for Additionally, if the data is stored in a storage type other than Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, the expenses will also rise.*Note: It is recommended to generate an index for VM files in the Restore wizard instead of enabling index generation during a backup job; otherwise, the costs would be higher. | For details, refer to this Microsoft page: Bandwidth pricing. |
| Azure Storage | Read operations and Data retrieval for backup | For details, refer to the following Microsoft pages:Azure Blob Storage pricingAzure Files pricing |
| Amazon EC2 | Snapshots; EBS direct API for snapshots. | For details on the pricing, refer to Amazon EBS pricing.To save the cost, you can reduce the backup frequencies. |
| Amazon EC2 | Data transferIt could be higher if data is transferred out of the region where the EC2 instance resides, or out of Amazon, if you are using the different storage type. | For details, refer to Amazon EC2 On-Demand Pricing. |
| Azure SQL | There will be additional costs if you use the Azure SQL backup service.To minimize the impact on production environment databases during Azure SQL backup jobs, the database data is copied to a temporary database before the backup process begins. This approach may incur additional costs. | For details, refer to Azure SQL Database pricing. |
Is the AWS storage available for Cloud Backup for IaaS + PaaS?
Yes, Cloud Backup for IaaS + PaaS supports the Amazon S3 storage as an available option for both AvePoint hosted default storage location and BYOS location. Additionally, it supports the Amazon S3-Compatible storage as a BYOS option. For more details about storage, refer to Manage Your Storage.
The Amazon S3 storage and Amazon S3-Compatible storage are available for all AvePoint backup products. However, the Amazon S3 storage is available as an AvePoint hosted default storage location only for Cloud Backup for IaaS + PaaS and Cloud Backup for Microsoft 365.
How does the retention policy work for Azure VM backups?
The backup process for Azure includes saving snapshots to Microsoft Azure and storing the backup data to your storage location. Snapshots are required to ensure data consistency and enable faster recovery process.
When configuring backup scopes for Azure virtual machines, you can configure the retention policy to set when to prune the snapshots from Azure and the backup data from the storage location.