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Storage
premium
Azure Site Recovery vault
An Azure Site Recovery vault is a Recovery Services vault used to manage replication, failover, and recovery metadata for Site Recovery.
Backup and recovery
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: ASR vault, Azure Site Recovery vault, Recovery Services vault, Site Recovery Recovery Services vault
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Storage
premium
Backup item
A backup item is a protected data source or backup instance in Azure Backup that is associated with a vault, policy, retention settings, and recoverable restore points.
Backup and recovery
intermediate
5 commands
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Storage
premium
Backup job
A backup job is an Azure Backup operation record for work such as protecting, backing up, restoring, stopping protection, or validating recovery activity in a vault.
Backup and recovery
intermediate
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Storage
premium
Backup policy
A backup policy defines when Azure Backup runs protection jobs and how long recovery points are retained for a protected workload.
Backup and recovery
intermediate
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Migration
premium
Backup vault
A Backup vault is an Azure Backup storage and management entity that stores backups, recovery points, and backup policies for supported newer workloads.
Backup and recovery
fundamentals
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Storage
premium
Azure Files backup
Azure Files backup protects Azure file shares using Azure Backup policies, recovery points, snapshots, and supported vaulted backup options. It helps backup and platform teams recover shared file data after accidental deletion, ransomware, or operator mistakes without managing separate backup servers or unreviewed snapshot scripts. You see it when business file shares need retention, recovery testing, policy enforcement, ransomware recovery, or evidence for data protection audits. It still needs ownership, network design, monitoring, and recovery planning. Operators need repeatable evidence for deployment, protection, troubleshooting, and reviews, not screenshots or tribal knowledge.
Backup and recovery
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Azure file share backup, Azure Backup for Azure Files
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Migration
verified
Recovery Services vault
A Recovery Services vault stores backup and site recovery data and configuration.
Backup and recovery
fundamentals
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Storage
verified
Recovery point objective
Recovery point objective is documented by Microsoft as part of the Backup and recovery area in Azure.
Backup and recovery
intermediate
5 commands
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Storage
complete
Soft delete for backup
Microsoft Learn describes soft delete for Azure Backup as a protection that keeps deleted backup data in a soft-deleted state for a configured retention period. Enhanced soft delete can extend retention and make the setting always on, helping recover from accidental or malicious deletions.
Backup and recovery
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Backup soft delete, backup soft delete, enhanced soft delete, soft-deleted backup data
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Storage
premium
Locally redundant storage
Microsoft Learn describes locally redundant storage as Azure Storage redundancy that replicates data within the primary region in a local storage scale unit. LRS is the lowest-cost redundancy option and provides high durability, but it does not protect against regional disasters.
Azure Storage
intermediate
10 commands
Aliases: LRS
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Storage
premium
Azure NetApp Files
Azure NetApp Files provides managed enterprise SMB and NFS volumes in Azure for performance-sensitive file workloads.
Backup and recovery
intermediate
5 commands
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Storage
premium
Cross-region restore
an Azure Backup capability that lets teams restore protected backup data into the paired secondary region when the vault is configured for it.
Backup and recovery
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Backup Cross Region Restore, CRR, secondary region restore
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Storage
verified
Restore point
Microsoft Learn describes a VM restore point as an Azure resource that stores VM configuration and point-in-time snapshots of attached managed disks. Restore points are kept in restore point collections and can be application-consistent or crash-consistent, depending on workload and operating system support.
Backup and recovery
intermediate
7 commands
Aliases: VM restore point, virtual machine restore point, disk restore point, restore point collection, pre-change restore point
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Storage
verified
Protected item
An Azure Backup protected item is a workload, file share, database, or virtual machine already protected by a backup policy in a vault. It carries backup state, policy association, recovery points, container identity, and workload metadata that operators use to monitor protection and restore data.
Backup and recovery
intermediate
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Databases
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Cosmos DB continuous backup
Azure Cosmos DB continuous backup is the backup mode that supports point-in-time restore for supported Cosmos DB resources within a configured retention tier.
Azure Cosmos DB
fundamentals
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Web
premium
App Service backup
An App Service feature for creating on-demand or scheduled backups of app content and supported configuration, with restore to an app or slot. It helps learners understand where the concept appears in Azure operations and what to verify before changing it.
App Service
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: app service backup, backup
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Integration
premium
Event Hubs geo-disaster recovery
Event Hubs geo-disaster recovery pairs namespaces and uses an alias so applications can fail over namespace metadata access to a secondary namespace during a regional disaster. Teams use it to keep a stable connection endpoint for disaster recovery planning when an Event Hubs namespace must move to a paired secondary region. It is not automatic failover, a backup of retained event data in standard metadata Geo-DR, or a replacement for application-level replay and regional processing design.
Event Hubs
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Event Hubs Geo-DR, Event Hubs disaster recovery alias, Geo-recovery alias
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Databases
premium
PostgreSQL backup retention
Azure Database for PostgreSQL automatically backs up flexible servers and retains the files and transaction logs for a configured window. The retention period defines how far back point-in-time restore can recover, with seven days as the default and up to thirty-five days configurable.
PostgreSQL flexible server
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure PostgreSQL backup retention, Flexible Server backup retention, PostgreSQL PITR retention
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Databases
premium
Backup / point-in-time restore
Backup point-in-time restore lets Azure database services restore a protected database or server to a specific earlier timestamp within the configured backup retention period.
Database continuity
advanced
4 commands
Aliases: PITR, point in time restore, point-in-time restore
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Databases
premium
Backup retention
Backup retention is the period or rule set that determines how long recovery points are kept before Azure Backup expires or prunes them according to policy.
Backup and restore
fundamentals
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Databases
premium
Cosmos DB backup policy
Account-level Cosmos DB setting that controls backup mode, restore behavior, retention expectations, and recovery options for databases and containers.
Azure Cosmos DB
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Cosmos DB backup policy, Cosmos DB periodic backup, Cosmos DB continuous backup policy
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Databases
premium
Long-term backup retention
Long-term backup retention is the Azure SQL feature for keeping selected automated full database backups in redundant Azure Blob storage for months or years, up to supported policy limits, so databases can be restored for compliance, audit, and recovery needs.
Azure SQL
intermediate
4 commands
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Databases
premium
MySQL backup retention
MySQL backup retention means the configured recovery window for automated backups on Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server. You see it when teams decide how long production database backups must remain available for restore, compliance, and incident response. Think of it as a recovery promise measured in days, not a paperwork checkbox. It matters because the setting changes how teams design, secure, operate, and troubleshoot the workload. Before changing it in production, know the owner, dependency, evidence, expected result, and rollback path.
MySQL flexible server
fundamentals
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Databases
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Continuous backup
Continuous backup is the Azure Cosmos DB backup mode that keeps restore points available over time instead of relying only on periodic snapshots.
Azure Cosmos DB
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Cosmos DB continuous backup, Cosmos DB point-in-time restore, continuous backup mode
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Periodic backup
Periodic backup is the scheduled backup option for Azure Cosmos DB.
Cosmos DB
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Cosmos DB periodic backup, periodic backup mode, scheduled Cosmos DB backup, backup interval, backup retention period, Azure Cosmos DB periodic backup, periodic backup policy
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Migration
premium
Azure Site Recovery
Azure Site Recovery helps provide disaster recovery by managing replication, failover, and failback for supported workloads.
Disaster recovery
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: ASR, Azure Site Recovery, Azure disaster recovery, Site Recovery
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Databases
premium
Azure SQL automated backup
Azure SQL automated backup automatically protects databases and supports point-in-time restore using service-managed backup chains.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL automated backup, Azure SQL automatic backups, SQL automated backups, point-in-time restore backups
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Databases
complete
SQL managed instance backup retention
Microsoft Learn explains that automated backups for Azure SQL Managed Instance let teams restore a managed database to a specific point in time within the configured retention period, up to 35 days, while long-term retention policies can preserve selected backups for years when compliance requires it.
SQL Managed Instance
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: SQL MI backup retention, managed instance PITR retention, MI short-term retention, SQL MI restore window
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Integration
verified
Receive and delete
Receive and delete is an Azure Service Bus receive mode where the broker considers a message settled as soon as it sends the message to the receiver. If transfer or processing fails afterward, the message is lost instead of being redelivered.
Azure Service Bus
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: ReceiveAndDelete, receive-and-delete mode, destructive read, at-most-once receive
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Integration
verified
Receive-and-delete mode
A integration pattern or service capability in Messaging that helps teams connect services reliably without tightly coupling every component with clearer ownership, safety, and operational context.
Messaging
fundamentals
5 commands
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Storage
learning-path-anchor
Time-based retention
Time-based retention in Azure Blob Storage is an immutability policy that keeps blob data in a write-once, read-many state for a specified retention interval. It can be applied at container or version scope to protect records from modification or deletion until the retention period expires.
Blob Storage
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Time-based retention, time based retention, Azure Time-based retention, Microsoft Learn Time-based retention, immutability policy, WORM retention, immutable blob retention, retention days, container immutability policy
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Databases
premium
Cosmos DB TTL
Cosmos DB TTL is the time-to-live setting that lets Cosmos DB automatically delete items after a configured number of seconds. It turns data expiration into a database policy instead of a manual cleanup job. You see it when containers store sessions, events, temporary search data, soft-delete markers, or records with explicit retention windows. The production check is whether container-level TTL, item overrides, change-feed behavior, and recovery expectations match the business retention rule. Document the decision in code, templates, metrics, and runbooks.
Azure Cosmos DB
intermediate
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Databases
premium
Failover
Failover is the process of moving an application, database, or service workload from a primary resource to a secondary resource when the primary is unavailable, unhealthy, or intentionally switched. Teams use it to keep a business service running by directing traffic, reads, writes, or recovery operations to a standby region, zone, replica, failover group, or disaster recovery target. It is not a backup by itself, a promise of zero data loss, automatic repair for every dependency, or proof that clients, DNS, identity, and downstream services will follow correctly.
Business continuity
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: service failover, regional failover, database failover, planned failover, unplanned failover
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Databases
premium
Active geo-replication
Active geo-replication is an Azure SQL Database business-continuity feature that continuously replicates one primary database to a readable secondary database, often in another Azure region. It supports manual or programmatic geo-failover for individual databases and can also serve read-only workloads from the secondary.
Azure SQL continuity
advanced
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL active geo-replication, geo-secondary, geo-replica
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Web
premium
App Service restore
App Service restore is recovering App Service content and supported configuration from an app backup, usually by overwriting an app or restoring into another app or deployment slot. Use it to reason about App Service behavior, validate configuration with CLI, and prevent hidden production impact from networking, scaling, recovery, security, or observability changes.
App Service Recovery
intermediate
5 commands
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Databases
premium
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database is a fully managed relational database service in Azure that provides SQL Server-compatible engines as single databases, elastic pools, and serverless or provisioned compute choices. Microsoft Learn presents it as platform as a service with built-in availability, backups, patching, scaling, and security integration.
Database
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL DB, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL pooled database, Azure SQL single database, SQL Database
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Databases
premium
Azure SQL geo-restore
Azure SQL geo-restore uses geo-replicated backups to restore a database to any logical server in any Azure region when primary-region access is unavailable.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL geo-restore, SQL geo restore, geo-replicated backup restore, geo-restore, regional backup restore
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Databases
premium
Cosmos DB account
Design the account boundary for a global application before choosing databases, containers, regions, consistency, and backup mode.; Separate regulated, tenant-specific, or production workloads into dedicated Cosmos DB ac
Database
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Cosmos DB account, cosmos db account
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Analytics
premium
Incremental copy
Incremental copy is the Azure concept that controls how data platforms move changes without reprocessing every source row or file. Teams see it when working with data factory pipelines, copy activity. It is not a full reload, a one-time migration, a backup job, or a blind append into a lake; that distinction matters because bad assumptions create duplicate records, missed changes. Use the term when reviewing ownership, access, monitoring, cost, recovery, or performance. It keeps architects, operators, security reviewers, and support teams focused on the same resource, setting, or behavior.
Azure Data Factory
Intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: incremental load, delta copy, watermark copy, CDC copy, last modified copy
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Databases
premium
Indexing policy
Indexing policy is the Azure concept that controls how Cosmos DB maintains indexes for items and how efficiently NoSQL queries consume request units. Teams see it when working with cosmos db containers, indexingpolicy json. It is not an Azure AI Search index, a SQL index, a partition key, or a backup policy; that distinction matters because bad assumptions create high RU charges, slow queries. Use the term when reviewing ownership, access, monitoring, cost, recovery, or performance. It keeps architects, operators, security reviewers, and support teams focused on the same resource, setting, or behavior.
Azure Cosmos DB
Intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Cosmos DB indexing policy, NoSQL indexing policy, included paths, excluded paths
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Storage
premium
Infrastructure encryption for storage
Infrastructure encryption for storage controls how Azure Storage applies optional double encryption to blobs, files, queues, or tables depending on account and scope configuration. Teams see it in storage account creation, encryption blade. It is not blob immutability, soft delete, encryption in transit, customer-managed key rotation, or disabling shared key authorization; confusing them can create storage accounts that cannot meet compliance, rebuild-only remediation. Use the term when reviewing access, monitoring, cost, recovery, or performance. It keeps architects, operators, security reviewers, and support teams focused on the same setting, resource, or behavior.
Azure Storage Security
Intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: storage infrastructure encryption, storage account double encryption, require infrastructure encryption, double encryption for Azure Storage
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Databases
premium
Instance pool
Instance pool controls how multiple small Azure SQL Managed Instances share capacity for migrations that need instance-level compatibility with lower per-instance overhead. Teams see it in azure sql managed instance pools, virtual clusters. It is not an Azure SQL elastic pool, a VM scale set, a Hyperscale database, or a shared SQL Server instance; confusing them can create capacity exhaustion, subnet design mistakes. Use the term when reviewing access, monitoring, cost, recovery, or performance. It keeps architects, operators, security reviewers, and support teams focused on the same setting, resource, or behavior.
Azure SQL Managed Instance
Intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: SQL Managed Instance pool, Azure SQL instance pool, managed instance pool, SQL MI instance pool
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Security
premium
Key
Key controls how protected workloads use cryptographic material for encryption, signing, key wrapping, customer-managed keys, and regulated data protection. Teams see it in key vault keys, managed hsm keys. It is not a password, secret value, certificate, storage account key, shared access signature, or application configuration setting; confusing them can create failed encryption operations, accidental key deletion. Use the term when reviewing access, monitoring, cost, recovery, or performance. It keeps architects, operators, security reviewers, and support teams focused on the same setting, resource, or behavior.
Secrets and cryptography
Fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Key Vault key, cryptographic key, key object, encryption key
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Databases
premium
Point-in-time restore
Point-in-time restore means choosing a time before something went wrong and restoring a database from backup history to that moment. It is not a magic undo button for every application issue; it usually creates a new database or restored instance that teams must verify, reconnect, or copy from. Operators use it after accidental deletes, bad migrations, data corruption, or failed releases. The important parts are the retention window, the restore target, the timestamp, and the validation work after restore.
Azure SQL
intermediate
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Databases
premium
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an open-source relational database engine. In Azure, Azure Database for PostgreSQL provides a managed Flexible Server service with compute, storage, backup, security, networking, monitoring, and high-availability capabilities for application and analytical workloads. across development, production, and migration scenarios.
Database
advanced
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL flexible server, managed PostgreSQL
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Databases
premium
PostgreSQL database
A named PostgreSQL catalog inside a flexible server that holds schemas, tables, extensions, permissions, and application data.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: PostgreSQL database, postgresql database, Azure Database for PostgreSQL database, database catalog, schema migration, charset, collation
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Storage
premium
Share snapshot
A share snapshot is a point-in-time copy of an Azure file share. Azure Files supports snapshots for SMB and NFS shares, letting administrators view, restore, or copy previous versions of files while existing snapshots remain until explicitly deleted or managed by policy.
Files, queues, and tables
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Files share snapshot, file share snapshot, share snapshot, Azure file share point-in-time copy, snapshot share
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Storage
premium
ZRS redundancy
ZRS redundancy is the storage-account redundancy setting that enables zone-redundant storage. It synchronously replicates data across availability zones in the primary Azure region, so blobs, files, queues, and tables can remain accessible during a zonal outage without relying on asynchronous secondary-region replication.
Storage accounts
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Standard_ZRS, Premium_ZRS, ZRS SKU, zonal redundancy, zone redundant SKU
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Storage
premium
Azure File Sync
Azure File Sync syncs Azure file shares with Windows Server file servers so users keep familiar local access while data is centralized in Azure Files. It helps infrastructure teams modernize branch and data center file services without forcing every user and application to change paths on day one. You see it when Windows file server migrations, branch caching, cloud tiering, disaster recovery staging, or phased moves to Azure Files. It still needs ownership, network design, monitoring, and recovery planning. Operators need repeatable evidence for deployment, protection, troubleshooting, and reviews, not screenshots or tribal knowledge.
Hybrid file services
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: File Sync, Storage Sync Service
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Storage
premium
Azure Files SMB
Azure Files SMB is the Azure Files capability for mounting managed file shares through the Server Message Block protocol. It helps Windows, app, and infrastructure teams move familiar mapped-drive and application share patterns to Azure without running and patching Windows file servers for common shared storage. You see it when Windows users need mapped drives, apps expect UNC paths, profile containers need shared storage, or branch offices need cloud-backed shares. It still needs ownership, network design, monitoring, and recovery planning. Operators need repeatable evidence for deployment, protection, troubleshooting, and reviews, not screenshots or tribal knowledge.
SMB file shares
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: SMB Azure file shares, Azure Files SMB protocol
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