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The hidden price of Azure data protection
Inside the Azure cost savings guide:
- Where the money actually goes in Azure Backup + ASR
- A tier 0/1/2/3 framework for deciding what deserves replication
- The 30-day savings test you can run against your own environment
Azure native protection is easy to turn on, but hard to predict the cost.
Azure Backup bills every VM by size tier, so disk sprawl quietly moves workloads into a higher bracket. Azure Site Recovery lists at $25 per protected instance, which is the licensing fee and rarely the biggest line item.
The good news?
You can cut the bill without changing your recovery posture: in three moves.