Azure Database for PostgreSQL
An Azure managed PostgreSQL database service for app development and deployment.
If I take an on-demand backup of an Azure Database for PostgreSQL instance, will I incur any additional charges for storing that backup? Is there any official Microsoft documentation that explains the cost implications
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Shubham Raut
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we are redeploying it for CMK steps. so we are concerned on costing.
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Saraswathi Devadula 10,855 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator2025-08-12T10:10:32.43+00:00 Hello Shubham Raut
Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server provides up to 100 percent of your provisioned server storage as backup storage at no extra cost. Any extra backup storage that you use is charged in gigabytes per month.
For example, if you have provisioned a server with 250 gibibytes (GiB) of storage, then you have 250 GiB of backup storage capacity at no more charge. If the daily backup usage is 25 GiB, then you can have up to 10 days of free backup storage. Backup storage consumption that exceeds 250 GiB is charged as defined in the pricing model.
If you configured your server with geo-redundant backup, the backup data is also copied to the Azure paired region. So, your backup size will be twice the size of the local backup copy. Billing is calculated as ( (2 x local backup size) - provisioned storage size ) x price @ gigabytes per month.
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