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However, there are scenarios where the short-term backup may not be sufficient. For this purpose, we can offer additional long-term retention backup which e.g. allows us to restore the backup on a new server.

For enhanced business continuity we offer geo-replication to other Microsoft Azure locations.

Encryption

The database has transparent data encryption with a service-managed key. This will encrypt the database, associated backups, and transaction log files at rest. See details on this page:
Transparent data encryption - Azure SQ…