A solid database backup plan is just as critical in the cloud as it is on-premise, but running SQL Server on Azure virtual machine introduces a few new issues. Presented by Datavail's Andy McDermid ...

You can save a backup of your MS SQL databases to a single file on your hard drive. These backup files have names ending with the ".bak" file extension, and you use them to restore database ...

SQL Server has long supported backing up databases to Azure Blob Storage, but now supports backup and restore to and from S3 (this can be in AWS or to your own S3 storage).

SQL Server has long supported backing up databases to Azure Blob Storage, but now supports backup and restore to and from S3 (this can be in AWS or to your own S3 storage).