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Compliance · Medium severity

Azure Cosmos DB Backup Policy Not Configured

Recovery depends on defaults nobody chose, so the retention you actually have may be far shorter than you assume.

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Azureprovider
Mediumseverity
Compliancewhere it shows up
Manualfix, steps written out

Azure

Found, explained, handed over.

Where the estate departs from your policies, frameworks and tagging rules.

01

Detect

ZopNight checks this automatically across Azure, with read-only access to the account.

02

Explain

Every finding says exactly what to change: Configure a backup policy on Cosmos DB account.

03

Fix

The finding opens with the fix already written out, step by step, so it is one ticket, not an investigation.

Applies to
Cosmos DB on Azure
The fix, by hand
  1. Open Portal → Azure Cosmos DB → the resource → Backup and Restore.
  2. Decide between Periodic (cheaper, 8h RPO default) and Continuous (PITR, irreversible).
  3. If Periodic: tune the backup interval (1-24h) and retention (8-720h) for your RPO.
  4. If Continuous: pick tier1 (7 day PITR) or tier2 (30 day PITR). Acknowledge the one-way switch.
  5. Save.

These are the steps the finding carries in the product.

Category
Compliance. Configuration drift from best practice: public access, missing MFA, unencrypted storage, deprecated runtimes.
Where it appears
The Compliance tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.
Rule ID
RC-1336
Full reference

Azure Cosmos DB Backup Policy Not Configured

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