Azure Recovery Service

Another service to help migration to the cloud is the Azure Recovery Service. This service contains features that can help us move data to the cloud:

• Azure Backup
• Azure Site Recovery

Both services aren't only used to move data to the cloud but to protect both Azure and on-premises resources. Their primary purpose is in fact to protect resources but once we have data in the cloud, this data can be used to perform migration.

Creating a recovery service vault

In order to start using the Azure recovery service, we must create a Recovery Services vault. All usual parameters are needed: Name, Subscription, Resource group, and Location. Note that Location is very important if you want to protect Azure...