Generally available: Cross-region snapshot copy for Azure Disk Storage

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Published

Mar 30, 2022

Status

Launched

Timeline

  • March 2022
    General Availability

Product

Azure Functions

Tag

Features

Category

Compute
Containers
Internet of Things

Description

Incremental snapshots are cost-effective point-in-time backups of Azure Disk Storage. They are billed for the changes to disks since the last snapshot and are always stored on the most cost-effective storage, Standard HDD storage, irrespective of the storage type of the parent disk.

Copy incremental snapshots to any region of your choice for disaster recovery using cross-region snapshot copy. Azure manages the copy process and ensures that only changes since the last snapshot in the target region are copied, reducing the data footprint and recovery point objective (RPO). 

Read the documentation to learn more about cross-region snapshot copy.