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Back Up Azure SQL the Smarter Way: Secure, Scalable & Agentless with Druva

Saurabh Kaushal, Principal Product Manager

In today’s digital-first world, organizations rely heavily on cloud databases like Azure SQL to power their business-critical applications. As part of our commitment to protecting cloud-native workloads and data without compromise, Druva is excited to announce the general availability of Azure SQL backup as part of our expanding data protection portfolio for Microsoft Azure.

This release strengthens Druva’s Cloud Data Center vision. A unified, cloud-native data protection platform for Azure and AWS, delivering scale, simplicity, and security without infrastructure or overhead, resulting in lower TCO for our customers.

Why Protect Azure SQL with Druva?

Microsoft Azure offers powerful database services through Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server on Azure VM. However, native options for long-term, air-gapped, and cross-region backup are limited, especially when compliance, ransomware protection, and granular recovery are critical.

Druva’s support for Azure SQL solves these gaps through a SaaS-native, agentless, and policy-driven backup solution, giving organizations end-to-end data protection without managing storage, proxies, or compute infrastructure.

Key Benefits of Druva for Azure SQL

Druva’s solution is built with enterprise needs in mind. Here’s why it stands out:

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Capability

Why Druva?

Agentless, SaaS-native Architecture

No agents or compute in customer environment - faster onboarding and zero maintenance burden.

Air-Gapped, Immutable Backups

Secure, air-gapped backups with Druva’s cloud-native data isolation.

Cross-Cloud & Cross-Region Backup

Druva is the only vendor in the industry that provides cross-cloud backup along with unmatched resiliency of cross-region backup, ensuring you meet disaster recovery and compliance requirements with confidence.

No Egress Costs

Druva ensures that backing up data from Azure does not incur any egress charges, even in cross-cloud backup scenarios. 

Unified Protection for SQL Deployments

One solution for Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server on Azure VM.

Global Deduplication

Reduce backup storage footprint and costs significantly across cloud workloads.

Policy-Driven Automation

Centralized policy management for backup frequency and retention.

Single Pane of Glass

Protect and manage Azure SQL alongside Azure VMs, AWS workloads, and Data Center workloads in one console.

Architecture Overview: Druva’s Azure SQL Protection

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Druva’s architecture is designed to deliver secure backup with zero infrastructure to manage, without any egress charges to our customers.

This agentless design connects securely to your Azure SQL environment via native APIs and extracts backups directly into the Druva Data Security Cloud, ensuring:

  • End-to-end encryption in transit and at rest.

  • No public internet exposure.

  • No persistent compute resources required from your subscription.

  • Air-gapped backup storage and deduplication for cost optimization.

This applies uniformly across:

  • Azure SQL Database (PaaS)

  • Azure SQL Managed Instances

  • SQL Server running in Azure VMs (IaaS)

Use Case Spotlight: Real-World Needs Solved

Customers across industries are already using Azure SQL for:

  • Financial systems with strict RTO/RPO expectations.

  • Customer-facing analytics platforms running on SQL Managed Instances.

  • Development environments and cloud data migration relying on SQL on Azure VMs.

These environments require compliance-ready, resilient, and cross-region and cross-cloud backups — often beyond what native Azure solutions provide.

Druva solves for:

  • Cyber resilience from ransomware with immutable, air-gapped storage.

  • Audit-readiness with full reporting and customizable retention controls.

  • Cloud-native cross-cloud and cross-region backup with cross-region cross-account restore capabilities.

Druva: One Platform for the Entire Cloud Data Center

With the addition of Azure SQL, Druva protects core cloud infrastructure across Azure and AWS:

Azure Workloads

AWS Workloads

Built on a Strategic Relationship with Microsoft

This innovation is further accelerated by Druva’s recently announced strategic relationship with Microsoft, reinforcing our joint commitment to simplifying and securing cloud transformation for enterprises. Through this alliance, Druva and Microsoft are delivering deeper integration, streamlined deployments, and enhanced data security for critical Azure workloads. The launch of Azure SQL backup is a direct reflection of this collaboration, offering customers a unified, agentless, and scalable data protection experience for Azure environments, backed by the security and performance of both platforms.

Ready to Get Started?

Druva simplifies cloud data protection so you can focus on innovation. Whether you’re running production databases on Azure SQL or building cloud-native applications, Druva’s agentless platform ensures your data is protected, recoverable, and compliant, without the overhead.

This unified approach delivers policy-driven automation, centralized visibility, and predictable and lower TCO, all backed by Druva’s industry-leading data resiliency guarantee.