n Episode 1 of this Microsoft Azure & Veeam series, I walk through Instant Recovery to Microsoft Azure using a real-world lab and a step-by-step demo.
We start with a simple on‑prem VMware environment running multiple virtual machines, protected by:
Local Veeam backups
A secondary copy stored in Microsoft Azure Blob using a backup copy job
From there, I demonstrate Instant Recovery to Azure, showing how you can bring workloads online in Azure within minutes, directly from backup without waiting for a full restore to complete.
To make the process crystal clear, I switch between:
✅ The Veeam UI to perform the recovery
🎨 An Azure blue “chalkboard” where I visually draw what’s actually happening behind the scenes during Instant Recovery
This covers:
Data flow from on‑prem to Azure
How Veeam presents backup data to Azure compute
What’s temporary vs what becomes permanent
When and why this recovery method is ideal
If you want to understand not just how to do Instant Recovery to Azure, but how it really works, this video is for you.
