Azure Backup Hub

Azure Backup Demo & Production Deployment Patterns

A compact landing page for the four backup patterns, business click-through demos, published deployment artifacts, and the minimum decisions needed before moving from demo to production.

Interactive demo Patterns Artifacts Decisions References
4Patterns
4Business demos
13KQL files
2Vault families

Interactive Azure Backup Explainer

New to these patterns? Start with a short, animated walkthrough of how Azure Backup protects workloads, vaults, and recovery paths — the fastest way to get the big picture before exploring the demos below.

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What This Page Is For

Use this as the front door for Azure Backup conversations: start with a business demo, open the matching deployment guide, then use the spec and KQL files as evidence for readiness, cost, restore testing, and governance.

Start Pattern A GitHub

Pick the workload

Start with the app, file, or data set the business needs back first.

Set the promise

Choose vault, retention, owner, and recovery expectation.

Run the proof

Open the matching business demo and validate the recovery path.

Keep evidence

Use guide, spec, KQL, and source links for production readiness.

Choose a Pattern

Pattern A: Core Demo

Start here. A fast, low-cost demo that backs up a VM and a file share, then restores a lost file — proving recovery works in about 10 minutes.

10 min storySales demoLow cost
Business demoGuideSpec

Pattern B: Ransomware

For security teams. Shows how soft delete, RBAC, and alerts keep clean, recoverable backups even during a ransomware or insider attack.

CISORBACSoft delete
Business demoGuideSpec

Pattern C: Modern Apps

For modern apps. Helps you choose the right vault for each workload by balancing recovery speed, depth, risk, and cost.

PortfolioBackup vaultCost fit
Business demoGuideSpec

Pattern D: Enterprise

For the enterprise. Turns backup into a governed program with clear owners, guardrails, cost visibility, restore evidence, and audit-ready proof.

CIOAuditFinOps
Business demoGuideSpec

Production Decisions

Vault Choice

Recovery Services vault for VM, Azure Files, SQL in VM, SAP HANA, and hybrid. Backup vault for disk, blob, AKS, and newer operational backup scenarios.

Recovery Promise

Define RTO, RPO, retention, restore-test cadence, owner, evidence location, and cost owner before deploying production policy.

Risk Controls

Use least privilege, soft delete, diagnostics, alerting, restore-test evidence, and immutability only where teardown and governance are understood.

Published Artifacts

PatternDeploymentSpecKQLSource
A
Core Demo		pattern-a-core-demo-deployment.mdSPEC.mdbackup-jobs / failed / vaultGitHub
B
Ransomware		pattern-b-ransomware-resilience-deployment.mdSPEC.mdfailures / rbac / soft deleteGitHub
C
Modern Apps		pattern-c-modern-workload-protection-deployment.mdSPEC.mdcoverage / restore SLA / redundancyGitHub
D
Enterprise		pattern-d-enterprise-landing-zone-deployment.mdSPEC.mdbudget / audit / cost / SLAGitHub

Compact Technical Reference

Spec Template
WorkloadBusiness service, data classification, owner, and recovery impact.
VaultRecovery Services vault, Backup vault, or workload-native backup.
PolicyFrequency, retention, instant restore, redundancy, immutability, and timezone.
RestoreFile, disk, VM, share, snapshot, point-in-time, or application-level path.
EvidenceProtected item, recovery point, test result, alert, KQL output, and owner signoff.
CostSKU, redundancy, retention, restored-resource lifecycle, and cleanup tags.
Demo Runbook
  1. Deploy workload, protection, and operations resources.
  2. Seed realistic business files or app data.
  3. Enable protection and confirm protected items.
  4. Create or verify a recovery point before presenting.
  5. Run the business click-through demo.
  6. Show one restore path and owner validation.
  7. Review alerts, KQL evidence, cost, and risk controls.
  8. Clean up demo resources and document exceptions.
Deploy Command
cd azure-backup-demo-spec az login az account set --subscription "<subscription-name-or-id>" az provider register --namespace Microsoft.RecoveryServices az provider register --namespace Microsoft.DataProtection $env:AZURE_BACKUP_DEMO_ADMIN_PASSWORD = "<strong-password>" ./scripts/deploy.ps1 ` -Location canadacentral ` -EnvironmentName backup-demo ` -Owner <owner-name> ` -AdminPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString $env:AZURE_BACKUP_DEMO_ADMIN_PASSWORD -AsPlainText -Force)
Monitoring Queries
AzureDiagnostics | where Category has "AzureBackup" | project TimeGenerated, Resource, Category, OperationName, ResultType, ResultDescription | order by TimeGenerated desc AzureActivity | where ResourceProviderValue =~ "Microsoft.RecoveryServices" | project TimeGenerated, OperationNameValue, ActivityStatusValue, Caller, ResourceGroup, Resource | order by TimeGenerated desc