Introduction

In this technology era we are always concerned about reducing the cost whether its CAPex or OPex related. Running EC2 instances 24/7 when they’re not in use can lead to unnecessary costs, especially in development and testing environments. Fortunately, AWS offers a way to automate shutdowns using Lambda functions and CloudWatch Event Rules (now known as EventBridge).

In this guide, you’ll learn how to schedule automatic EC2 shutdowns every day using a simple Python Lambda function and a CloudWatch cron rule.

Azure Arc is a Microsoft service designed to simplify hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure management in a consistent, secure, and scalable way.

With rapidly evolving technologies, managing resources across environments like AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and on-premises has become increasingly complex. Azure Arc provides a unified control plane by integrating non-Azure resources into Azure Resource Manager (ARM). This enables centralized governance, policy enforcement, security, and inventory management across your entire IT landscape.

Azure Backup is a Microsoft native backup service which provides a seamless and scalable way to secure your data, applications and workloads and restore the data or application in an effiecient manner.

In this blog we will be discussing the following points:

• What is Azure Backup
• What I can Backup
• Key Features
• Use Cases
• Pricing Structures
• Conclusion

What is Azure Backup

Azure Backup is Backup-as-a-service(BaaS) offered by Microsoft azure to protect and restore your infrastruture,data and applications hosted across different environment. It helps to reduce the operational overhead and ensure the compliance with security and retention requirements.It is a scalable solution that can protect everything from individual files and folders to entire virtual machines, databases, and applications