Resilience · 3-5 weeks
Azure business continuity and disaster recovery
Backups fail quietly, and disaster recovery plans go stale. We design your Azure business continuity around the two numbers that matter: how much data you can afford to lose, and how long you can afford to be down. Then we implement Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery to hit those targets. Recovery copies are immutable and isolated so ransomware cannot reach them, and the failover runbook is one you have actually run.
What's included
- Business impact review: RPO and RTO targets per workload, and the cost of downtime
- Azure Backup for VMs, SQL, Azure Files, and Microsoft 365 data where in scope
- Immutable vaults, soft delete, and multi-user authorization to survive a ransomware or insider event
- Azure Site Recovery for VM replication and orchestrated failover, Azure to Azure or on-premises to Azure
- Cross-region strategy and geo-redundant storage
- DR runbooks with clear roles, sequence, and decision points
- A live failover test with a documented result
- Backup monitoring, alerting, and a recovery cost estimate
How we work
Scope
A fixed statement of work: what we will do, what you receive, and the timeline. Agreed before any work starts.
Execute
We do the work in your tenant with least-privilege access, with updates at defined checkpoints, not radio silence.
Hand off
Documentation, runbooks, and a walkthrough so your team can operate what we built.
Azure Backup & Disaster Recovery: common questions
Do you test the failover, or just document it?
We run a real failover test as part of the engagement and document what actually happened, including anything that needed fixing. A DR plan that has never been executed is a guess.
Can this protect against ransomware?
That is a core goal. Backups go into immutable vaults with soft delete and multi-user authorization, so an attacker who compromises an admin account still cannot delete or encrypt the recovery copies.
Does it cover Microsoft 365 data, not just Azure VMs?
It can. Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams backup is in scope where you want retention or recovery beyond what Microsoft 365 provides natively.
How is this different from the Azure Foundation Build?
The foundation build sets up the landing zone. This engagement is the backup, replication, and recovery layer specifically, and it runs on a foundation we built or one you already have.
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Talk to a senior architect about azure backup & disaster recovery
A short call to understand your environment, then a fixed-scope proposal. Based in Denver, Colorado; we work with clients across the US remotely.