{"id":11418,"date":"2025-12-08T12:45:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/?p=11418"},"modified":"2025-12-08T12:45:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:45:27","slug":"cosmos-db-ltr-immutability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/cosmos-db-ltr-immutability\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-term data retention up to 10 years: Announcing Private Preview of Azure Backup for Azure Cosmos DB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Azure Backup for Azure Cosmos DB is a new option that lets you securely protect and recover your Azure Cosmos DB data for compliance, audit, and ransomware protection scenarios. It leverages Azure Backup\u2019s vault isolation and Azure Cosmos DB\u2019s native backup streams to deliver scalable, long-term data protection that meets regulatory requirements.<\/p>\n<h2>How does it work?<\/h2>\n<p>During the private preview, you can configure backup schedules and retention policies at the Azure Cosmos DB account or collection level, stream backups to a vaulted, isolated Azure Backup Vault, and restore data to an empty Azure Cosmos DB account in the same region. The service supports flexible policy assignments, role-based access control, and monitoring through Azure Backup Center.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_11448\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_11448\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11448\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2025\/12\/you-can-define-policies-to-capture-the-date-and-ti.png\" alt=\"You can define policies to capture the date and time when to take the LTR backup, as well as the storage resilience and retention time\" width=\"957\" height=\"787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2025\/12\/you-can-define-policies-to-capture-the-date-and-ti.png 957w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2025\/12\/you-can-define-policies-to-capture-the-date-and-ti-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2025\/12\/you-can-define-policies-to-capture-the-date-and-ti-768x632.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 957px) 100vw, 957px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_11448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Define backup policies to specify time, storage resilience and retention time<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<h2>Why is it important?<\/h2>\n<p>Azure Cosmos DB LTR helps organizations meet strict regulatory requirements like GDPR, FINRA or DORA by providing immutable, auditable long-term backups. This ensures your critical data remains immutable and recoverable, addressing legal hold and time lock scenarios dictated by legal and industry compliance needs.<\/p>\n<h2>How to onboard<\/h2>\n<p>To join the private preview,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sign up at <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AzureBackupforCosmosDBPreview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aka.ms\/AzureBackupforCosmosDBPreview<\/a> or<\/li>\n<li>Contact the team at <strong><a href=\"mailto:AzureBackupforCosmosDBPreview@microsoft.com\">AzureBackupforCosmosDBPreview@microsoft.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What\u2019s next?<\/h2>\n<p>Public preview will expand region support, add immutable vaults and cross-region restore, and introduce portal\/CLI self-service onboarding.<\/p>\n<h2><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Leave a review<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u202f<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Tell us about your Azure Cosmos DB experience! 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With its SLA-backed speed and availability as well as instant dynamic scalability, it is ideal for real-time NoSQL and MongoDB applications that require high performance and distributed computing over massive volumes of NoSQL and vector data.\u202f<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">To stay in the loop on Azure Cosmos DB updates, follow us on\u202f<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AzureCosmosDB\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">X<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u202f<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AzureCosmosDBYouTube\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">YouTube<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, and\u202f<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/azure-cosmos-db\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azure Backup for Azure Cosmos DB is a new option that lets you securely protect and recover your Azure Cosmos DB data for compliance, audit, and ransomware protection scenarios. It leverages Azure Backup\u2019s vault isolation and Azure Cosmos DB\u2019s native backup streams to deliver scalable, long-term data protection that meets regulatory requirements. How does it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147388,"featured_media":11473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14,1969,1970],"tags":[1771,1974,1971,1972,1973],"class_list":["post-11418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mongodb-api","category-core-sql-api","category-backup-restore","category-compliance","tag-backup","tag-data-protection","tag-immutability","tag-long-term-retention","tag-vault"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Azure Backup for Azure Cosmos DB is a new option that lets you securely protect and recover your Azure Cosmos DB data for compliance, audit, and ransomware protection scenarios. 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