Long-term retention on cloud or on-premises S3-compatible object stores such as Amazon S3, Azure Blob or Wasabi. Jobs can write to it directly, or it can act as a capacity or archive tier in a scale-out repository.
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Terms in this definition
- Long-term retention
Azure SQL feature for holding on to full backups well beyond the normal window: weekly, monthly or yearly copies can be retained for a decade.
- Amazon S3
The object storage service in Amazon's cloud. Through a OneLake shortcut, an S3 bucket's data can show up in a Microsoft Fabric lakehouse with no copy made, though such shortcuts can only be read from.
- BLOB
Short for binary large object: raw binary data, like pictures, audio, video or documents, that only an application can make sense of. Azure keeps these files as blobs in Blob Storage.
- Capacity
A reserved block of compute for a tenant whose size is fixed by its SKU; Fabric F SKUs express it in capacity units (CUs). Workspaces assigned to it unlock features like Copilot, and from F64 upwards people with free licences can view Power BI content.
- Archive tier
An offline blob access tier offering the cheapest storage, meant for data that is hardly ever read. Archived blobs must first be rehydrated to the Hot, Cool or Cold tier, which may take as long as 15 hours, before you can read or change them, and ZRS, GZRS and RA-GZRS accounts can't use this tier.
- Repository
A group of images or artefacts in a container registry that share one name and differ by tag. Names can include slash-separated namespaces, but every repository is handled separately.
Related terms
- object storage backup job
Treats data held in Azure Data Lake, Azure Blob, Amazon S3 and S3-compatible storage as unstructured data and protects it. This differs from sending backups to an object storage repository.
- Scale-Out Backup Repository
A repository that grows horizontally across tiers. Its performance tier is built from extents, each a standard or object storage repository, and object storage can add optional capacity and archive tiers on top.
- Veeam Data Cloud Vault
Cloud object storage run by Veeam as a managed service, which you add as an object storage repository or as an extent of a scale-out backup repository. Immutability cannot be switched off (minimum 30 days) and jobs writing there must be encrypted.