What is Resiliency in Azure?
Resiliency in Azure is a cloud-native unified experience for resiliency posture management that enables you to manage your protection estate across solutions and environments. It provides consistent views, seamless navigation, and supporting information for a holistic view of your resiliency estate, with better discoverability and the ability to perform core activities directly.
Microsoft documents the rename explicitly: Azure Business Continuity Center (ABCC) is now Resiliency in Azure, indicating a broader scope and expanded capabilities. The platform, originally focused on backup and disaster recovery, now includes built-in resiliency experiences that integrate zone resiliency and high availability, backup and disaster recovery, and ransomware protection within a single solution.
Resiliency in Azure consolidates resiliency into three areas: infrastructure resiliency protects from infrastructure outages using zone resiliency, with integrated experiences such as zone down drill, goals and recommendations, and a recovery orchestration plan. Data resiliency ensures backup and disaster recovery meet Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO). Cyber recovery secures backups and enables at-scale recovery during cyberattacks.
Core Features
- A single pane of glass for BCDR protection across workload types, vaults, subscriptions, regions, and Azure Lighthouse tenants
- Action center with at-scale views across Azure, hybrid, and edge environments and the ability to perform core actions
- At-scale monitoring of jobs, alerts, and reports across all vaults
- BCDR protection posture with proactive notification of gaps in security configurations (currently for Azure Backup)
- Audit compliance through built-in and custom Azure Policies for BCDR management
- Configuration of backups and replication plus definition of protection policies
- Security features: immutability, soft delete, multi-user authorization, private endpoint, customer managed keys, and threat detection for VMs
- Zone resiliency with zone down drill, goals and recommendations, and a recovery orchestration plan
Typical Use Cases
Surveying the protection estate
In large, distributed Azure and hybrid environments, Resiliency shows which data sources are protected and how, across workload types, vaults, subscriptions, and regions.
Closing gaps
The posture assessment proactively surfaces gaps in configuration so unprotected or insufficiently protected resources become visible.
Rehearsing zone outages
Zone down drills and the recovery orchestration plan let you validate the zone resiliency of applications and plan recovery in a structured way.
Ransomware protection
Immutability, soft delete, multi-user authorization, and threat detection for VMs protect backups from tampering and enable recovery when it matters.
Demonstrating compliance
Built-in and custom Azure Policies for BCDR management can be applied at scale, with their compliance visible in Resiliency.
Benefits
- One place for backup, disaster recovery, zone resiliency, and ransomware protection
- Existing ABCC capabilities are preserved while the scope has expanded
- At-scale view across vaults, subscriptions, resource groups, regions, and Lighthouse tenants
- Proactive notification of configuration gaps instead of manual review
- Policy-based governance with a compliance view for BCDR requirements
- Coverage of Azure, hybrid, and on-premises environments
Integration with innFactory
As a Microsoft Solutions Partner, innFactory supports building your resiliency strategy on Azure: taking stock of your current protection status, defining RPO and RTO targets, building protection policies, and setting up monitoring and compliance through Azure Policy.
We also accompany zone down drills and the creation of recovery plans for your critical applications. Contact us for a no-obligation consultation.
Typical Use Cases
Technical Specifications
Frequently Asked Questions
What happened to Azure Business Continuity Center?
Microsoft documents the rename explicitly: 'Azure Business Continuity Center (ABCC) is now Resiliency in Azure, indicating a broader scope and expanded capabilities.' Existing ABCC capabilities continue to be available; the platform was extended with zone resiliency, high availability, and ransomware protection.
Which areas does Resiliency in Azure cover?
Microsoft names three areas: infrastructure resiliency to protect from infrastructure outages using zone resiliency, data resiliency to ensure backup and disaster recovery meet RPO and RTO, and cyber recovery to secure backups and enable at-scale recovery during cyberattacks.
What can be managed with it?
Resiliency in Azure lets you manage data sources protected across solutions, from different environments such as Azure and on-premises. Specifically, you can configure backups and replication, define protection policies, monitor operations, and review configurations. Supported scenarios and limitations are documented in the resiliency support matrix.
Which security features are included?
Microsoft names immutability, soft delete, multi-user authorization, private endpoint, customer managed keys (CMK), and threat detection for virtual machines to help protect data sources from ransomware.
How do I identify gaps in protection?
Resiliency in Azure evaluates your current configuration and proactively notifies you of gaps in security configurations; per Microsoft this currently applies to Azure Backup. The at-scale view across vaults, subscriptions, regions, and Azure Lighthouse tenants adds an overall picture of your protection estate.
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