Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition

13 Backup, recovery, and replication

The next few chapters introduce some of the core Azure features and services that allow you to build security into your applications. That’s probably too subjective: security shouldn’t be an add-on feature or consideration. Rather, security should be inherently built into the heart and soul of your application from the start. In this chapter, you’ll begin your journey into Azure security with backing up and recovering your data. Backups may not seem like a common security topic, but think about security as being more than data encryption or website SSL certificates. What about the protection of your data from outages, data loss, and hacking? A discussion of backups and replication also acts as a good topic ...