SQL Database storage

SQL Database and SQL Managed Instances create transaction log backups every 5-10 minutes, a differential backup every 24 hours with a retention period of seven days, providing the backup with Point-In-Time-Restore (PITR) and long-term backups have a retention period of four weeks.

By default, SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance store data in geo-redundant storage blobs that are replicated to a paired region. Geo-redundancy helps to protect against outages impacting backup storage in the primary region and allows you to restore your server to a different region in the event of a disaster.

Data Residency

We can meet almost any data residency requirement as we have access to many data centre sites around the world - if you have specific requirements, please talk to us!