 Hello, folks. I'm sure you have backups in your environments. Do you have a process to see all of your resource? Which ones are protected, which ones are not? Well, if you do, this is the video for you. We're joined by Aruna Sumandra, the principal PM for the Azure Backup Team, and we're going to talk about that right now. Good morning, Aruna. How are you? Good morning, Pierre. I'm doing good. Thank you. How about you? I'm good. I'm good. I hear that Azure Backup Center is a big thing. Can you tell us about it? Sure. Azure Backup Center is a single pane of glass in Azure for managing all things backup. It helps customers ensure that they can optimize their backup management in a super easy manner, as well as make sure it is performant and helps them optimize their entire data protection needs. Azure Backup Center helps customers with four key privates. One is in terms of governance. You have large deployments in your organization. You want to make sure that the same rules around compliance, the same mechanisms of data protection for different types of workloads or applications are ensured across your entire organization. Azure Backup Center helps you do governance for backup perspective in a very simple manner. The other aspect it helps you with is monitoring. For anyone in the backup space, you will know that tracking backup related tasks, whether it is your backups, making sure your backups are passing, making sure you're alerted when there's a failure, making sure your restores are successful, are super important. Azure Backup Center helps you with all your monitoring needs at scale across an entire distributed environment. Similarly, for any kinds of operations that you're doing with respect to a backup management, whether it is a one-time backup that you're doing, whether it is a restore that you're doing, whether it is a new configuration that you're doing, Azure Backup Center has one single place that you would go to for configuring backups or any of these tasks across whichever workloads you're protecting. Lastly, Azure Backup Center has a whole bunch of insights that it provides you with, so that you can look at trends information and statistical information over a period of time, and then use that information to have insights that help you drive further optimizations in terms of your backup management. Overall, Azure Backup Center, one single place in Azure from one single pane of glass, you can govern, monitor, operate and get insights on backup, helping you focus on your core organizational goals while not worrying about data protection. That sounds wonderful. I'm very interested in two parts for this particular video here that you mentioned. One is the resources, so what's the process for discovering resources that need to be backed up? If we're in Cloud and I've got team members that are spinning out servers or spinning out services, how do I make sure that somebody else's server actually shows up on my radar if I'm responsible for backup so that I can set up the proper backup routines? Awesome. Let me show you quickly how Backup Center helps you with that. If how you can actually get a view of those resources that you talked about, which you want to ensure are actually being protected or not. If you comment to the Backup Center, the first thing that you will see in the overview is a view of your entire estate that you have access for, and it shows you some quick summary on the jobs and the virtual machines that are actually being protected. What you also see on the left tab under policy and compliance is something called protectable data sources. If you go into this view, what it actually shows you is the set of virtual machines that have not been configured for backup. So these are virtual machines that have suddenly gotten spun up by somebody. These are something that have missed an Azure policy that you have set, for example, because it didn't meet the criteria. So you have one single place. To come here, look at your view. You see, oh, there are 15 virtual machines that are not protected, and then you can actually go and take corrective action and just choose to back them up, or you can go into the resource, look at what that VM is doing, and then figure out whether you want a backup or you want to exclude it. So that's how Backup Center helps you get that view. Okay, so if you've got an environment that has both production workloads and development or testing workloads, you can filter on those and make sure that you're only protecting the ones that are requiring backup, correct? Correct, absolutely. So one of the really good things that Backup Center helps you with is a lot of our filters, pretty much all our filters are based on properties of the actual data source that you are interested in. So in this case, if these are virtual machines, you can actually filter on the tags, and you can say, okay, I am interested in making sure that I am only wanting to see if there are any policy test VMs that have not been protected. And so I can say, okay, there's nothing available, but then I can look at and say, if it's a production VM, it definitely, it's a demo I'm doing, I wanna make sure that it's definitely backed up, then I can actually go filter on that tag and it'll show me the view. In this case, I don't have resources matching tags, but you get the idea. Yeah, that's perfect, actually. As long as the people that create the resources put the proper tags on it, which leads me to the next point. Is there a way to ensure when the machines or the resources are created that they're automatically enrolled in backup center? Absolutely, so in terms of being enrolled for backup center, in terms of getting the overall views in terms of having a view into your backup estate, there's other than you as a backup admin having backup admin access onto that subscription, there's no additional enrollment that you have to do. Having said that, if your question was, what do I need to do to configure backup the moment a VM comes up, then yes, there are Azure policies that you can go define and assign and stuff like that. Okay, so do I have to go back into the Azure policy service? Oh, I see it right there in your screen, Azure policies for backup. Absolutely, so one of the fundamental philosophies for backup center is that everything you want to do with backup are available for you in one single place. So you might be using Azure policy for all your management governance and deployment needs and you can do the same task that I'm gonna show you even from the Azure policy experience. All that we've done and we help you do with backup center is when you click on Azure policies for backup, it actually seamlessly is opening up the same Azure policies experience, but it's kind of filtered for backup. Okay. So if you went on Azure policy and did a filter for backup, whatever you would see, it's exactly the same things that you would see with your category being filtered on backup. And then you see all your policies and you can assign them accordingly. So we've looked at governance or policies, we've looked at onboarding or identifying resources that are not protected. What about you mentioned earlier, reporting and monitoring? Is it just in the overview that the monitoring or is there more in terms of alerting? Okay, let me talk about that. So there are a couple of aspects to that. Some of which is available today and some of which will keep coming later. What you see in the overview is like a quick glance of what the most important things are. So it shows you in the last 24 hours, a slice and dice in terms of what is interesting for you. So how many have completed? How many are in progress? How many failed? If there was any restores you trigger it'll show you right there. So you have all of that as a quick glance. In addition, you can either click here and look at details of those or you can go into the jobs page and then do further filters to kind of say, okay, for the last two weeks show me the job information and I get some further details from there. So that's one mechanism that you have for monitoring your jobs. Now you also asked about alerts. So let me talk about alerts as well. What we have in Backup Center right now is the view of monitoring where we're showing the jobs. Alerts integration is not yet in Backup Center and when I mean it's not yet in Backup Center it means we are not showing the view of the alerts. Whatever are the alerts that you've already configured will continue to work but it's something that we're actively working on in terms of adding that capability very shortly where you can also see alerts surface up through Backup Center. Okay. That's wonderful. Let me touch back on protectable resource, data sources because I just thought of something. What is considered a protectable data source or do we just say all VMs or what about VMs with SQL or SQL as a service or Postgres or any kind of those databases that we're providing service for? Great question. So if you notice over here you have the data source type filter and what we do is for all of the workloads that Azure Backup supports we have an ability to filter on that and have further information. So for example, if I chose Postgres maybe in the subscription I don't have Postgres. Let me see if I have... Okay. Let's choose Blobs, right? Azure Backups recently released in preview the support for Blob Backup. Now what we do is we will show you all of the storage accounts where you do not have any Azure Blobs configured for Backup. So we're not going to show you saying, okay, here is this particular blob that is not getting protected or anything of that sort. Our mechanisms for Blob Backup will focus on the storage account and so in the Protectable Data Source we will say here are the storage accounts that you have that have no Azure Blobs that are configured for Backup and if you click Backup then immediately it takes you to the Configure Backup workflow for Blobs that you can then go select. Okay. And this list of Protectable Data Sources is it finite or is it going to grow as more services are onboarded? Great question again. We are planning to keep increasing more workloads to ensure that our customers who are betting on Azure have the choice of native data protection in Azure. So we just released Azure Disks to be generally available. We have Blobs in preview, we have Postgres in preview. We're also working on other workloads so you will see this list increasing. Okay. So Aruna, that was a lot of information and definitely a lot of things for us to think about when we're managing our environment. So thank you very much for this overview of Backup Center and we will see you back here for maybe a bit more in details of some of those capabilities. So thank you very much for taking the time. Perfect. Thank you so much. And for you watching at home make sure to keep track of this channel. And all of the information about the documentation and relevant information is going to be down here in the description of this video. So thank you very much and we'll see you later.